Indiscriminate Distinctions

"Indiscriminate Distinctions," Warren Dunn's latest novel, is a story of love and privilege struggling to separate religion from science in a highly charged political setting. As a newly minted physics professor, Owen Miller keeps busy organizing a White House Conference on the Design of the Universe while, at the same time, trying to choose between the women in his life, one of them the artist-mother of his new-born daughter he's never seen. Increasingly confused and frustrated, he becomes caught up in the need to serve a President determined to bring civility to the colloquy between faith and theory. What begins as an academic inquiry degenerates into a terrorist plot as sides are chosen and a conspiracy takes over. As he sorts out his own life and the threats to those he loves, he gradually finds purpose and determination.