Truman's Glen

About the Book

This is a novel about choices and second chances. It revolves around a young man who has made some selfish choices that have put everyone in danger. Having compiled a debt to some mobsters, he tries to figure out how to get out of trouble and also stay alive. While in a restaurant picking up dinner, there is a large explosion which leaves him wounded but alive. In the confusion he creates a fake death and stumbles away from the scene; effectively disappearing. After his escape he is discovered and adopted by a team of vagrants living in a local forest preserve, all of whom have their own reasons to disappear. As his disappearance begins to affect his wife and others, they all start to reflect on their choices and how they view their lives. In the end, through an unexpected quirk of fate, he finds a path home.

About the Author

With the publishing of his second novel, he writes about the complications of a young man’s behavior and the fallout out from those acts. Having written over a dozen short stories for anthologies in the genre of literary fiction, he enjoys creating stories involving people that are dealing with the consequences of impetuous decisions and how they deal with the drama that that follows. Using unique characters with complexities of their own to enrich the stories, he adds to it a thin veil of mystery using a style of writing that creates an entertaining and enriched story that reveals everyone’s connection.