You Are Not Alone

“You Are Not Alone” is a detective story about the search for a missing person, told mostly from the point of view of the missing person. It’s also about homesickness. The missing person, named Price, has absconded with a lot of money and fled somewhere warmer. His wife hires a detective to find him. Continually on the move, Price gives a lift to a drifter named Robin after she’s left at a truck stop. The clues he sends back such as tape recordings and photographs as if he actually wanted to be found, draw investigator Politzer, who say he’s never been south of Niagara Falls, to follow his path. The trail leads through the deserts of the American Southwest, the vast spaces of Texas, the sweltering South, the commemorative walls of Graceland and the Viet Nam Veteran’s Memorial in Washington, D.C. and ultimately, home.