NEXUS: How Kevin Ward Became A Spy

It is 1993. Kevin Ward, a professional wild bird video/photographer is returning to his remote island home on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. Kevin has just come out as gay to his doting parents. The news that their only son is gay does not go down well. Cut off from his family, Kevin, determined to retreat to his home and bathe himself in the solace of silence finds an intruder in the kitchen calmly preparing a meal. The intruder who, calls himself G, is a spy—of sorts. He wants Kevin, or more to the point Kevin's keen eye.

As G puts it, “Mister Ward, the people who sent me want your expertise in photography and videography. They want me to talk to you about it. Bad people are doing bad things in places that are difficult to penetrate. We want to know who, what, where, how, and when. Nothing more. No editorializing, no commentary. A picture being worth a thousand words, as they say. That is where you come in.”

From this conversation Kevin Ward's life is changed. Twenty years pass. Kevin loses the fading love of a Thai man and, almost miraculously, finds it again in the arms of the young and brash Peter March. But the world still needs Kevin and his particular talents. G returns, and with him, trouble for Kevin and Peter. Poor timing, an angry letter, feelings of abandonment and anger split the men for over a year. Then in Rome the two meet again. Determined to rescue their love, Peter can't or won't let Kevin slip away again.

NEXUS How Kevin Ward Became a Spy is one of those stories that conjure images of what if. Think of all those folks one sees on TV reporting from across the globe. They have cameramen and women who live lives beyond what we see. Kevin Ward's story explores what may be hidden.