Nobody’s Watching

A summer, a garage and a truck.

The boy at the center of Nobody’s Watching is fifteen, and he has spent his whole life running faces: the funny one, the flat one, the one with the perfect feed. He performs for a room he is certain is grading him.

Then he spends a summer in a garage that smells like cut pine, fixing a truck with a man named Ray, learning to name the thing before it names him.

The same Ray.

Ray is the man most of The Accountable Life follows, and it’s the same Ray in both books. Daniel Walker’s nonfiction book follows the man who built the business; the novel follows the kid still living inside him. In the novel, Ray fixes the truck with the boy and, along the way, teaches him the disciplines, step by step.

The same work, from the inside.

Nobody’s Watching is the same work as the first book, told from the inside of a life instead of across a desk. The man who built everything and the boy still deciding who to be turn out to be the same person.

Daniel’s site for the series, theaccountablelifeseries.com, calls the two books the same method, told two ways. Its method page lays the method out in full, starting with the half-second gap between something happening and what you do about it.

About the author.

Daniel Walker is the author of The Accountable Life. He grew up in a small town in Oklahoma, about half an hour east of Tulsa, spent twenty-five years in business and five years in law enforcement, and coaches men who run a business, one-on-one. His music is released as Echoes in Ashes.

Nobody’s Watching is available on Amazon.