Foreword
It was Henry David Thoreau, in Walden, who remarked, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." This statement appears to be just as valid today as it was then. Perhaps it is even more true today, considering the pressures and frequent monotony of modem society.
The majority of today's men and women live in an overcrowded, competitive, noisy world. Most are put into slots and walk on a treadmill -- going to boring jobs, living in carbon-copy houses, socializing with the same people. Their desperation is reflected in the rising rate of divorce, alcoholism, and drug addiction.
The fictional characters in SPREAD WIDE SECRETARIES are desperate people, like their real-life counterparts. Bored, frustrated, unhappy, they seize at the first opportunity for release. In their need, they cast aside morals and scruples, determined to live only for the moment, to grab at pleasure before it is taken away.
SPREAD WIDE SECRETARIES is a novel about the "quiet desperation" in so many of us -- and the extremes to which it may drive us.
The Publisher