Nobody's career change was ever this rough . . . or rewarding Follow Auguste Kensley, an only child, fatherless and poor, as he struggles to survive the rough and tumble neighborhoods of South Brooklyn, New York City in the 1960's and 70's. He and his boyhood friend Raj survive by using their wits and the street smarts gained from their daily struggles, eventually thriving despite the odds against them. Auguste takes what few opportunities come his way, only to reach a dead end in his newly gained career as a freelance writer for tabloids. Faced with a do or die career choice and unable to see a solution, he and Raj travel abroad together, but for entirely different reasons. Auguste hopes the new setting and a break from the fast paced cut throat life as a freelance writer will give him a new perspective, opening his mind up to other possibilities. Instead he tumbles into a hurricane of new emotions on the other side of the world, finding new love, and loss, despair and desperation. He survives a kidnapping and captivity only to find his freedom is not without consequences; life and death ones. Will he complete The Condition, the task required by his captors in order to obtain his release? Or will someone die if he does? Auguste and The Condition, explores the deep psychological terror of captivity itself, illustrated in an emotionally charged climax, and shows the cruel and subtle manipulations a victim can suffer in freedoms aftermath.