Parents know children can be incorrigible; sometimes a piece of writing is the same. What this author began as a simple short story defiantly grew to a full-length novel.
TRADE SECRETS fictionally combines "chance" occurrences, and people in the author's own life: living in a small town (not unlike Chandler's Wharf), witnessing massive flooding of the Mississippi, and Ohio Rivers, serving guard duty at a military stockade, observing some people thriving where they live while others seem cruelly out of place.
Like a child, this novel demands: "Do events occur, and people appear by chance coincidence, or are these a series of planned miracles without flash, and bang accompaniment ?"
Every skillful planner uses trade secrets to achieve goals. Isn't it possible the planner himself is someone else's trade secret?
