Trade Secrets

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.<br>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 stockadeobserving some people thriving where they live while others seem cruelly out of place.<p>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 ? <br>Every skillful planner uses trade secrets to achieve goals. Isn't it possible the planner himself is someone else's trade secret ?<br>