Secret Players

Secret Players is about international intrigue and behind-the-scenes power run amok. But it is also a metaphor for the dangers of a few elitists conspiring to formulate a strategy for a New World Order without consulting the people.

Taking the reader to Pittsburgh, Detroit, Saginaw, Washington, Paris, Tokyo, and Taiwan, this story shows how the lives of five strong women and four determined men become intertwined during the last half of the twentieth century.

Two veterans who faced each other during World War II set out to change the world. Buck Steele, who wants to be rich, is determined not to live a Pittsburgh steel mill life.Sako Amanuma, out of hatred and shame, against the private wishes of his wife becomes the Shadow Shogun of Japan with a strategy to conquer the United States.

Buck's accidental wife, Carrick, takes him to Detroit and introduces him to the Cass family of Saginaw. Buck then grows the CASS Corporation into America's first billion-dollar conglomerate and a target for take-over by the Shadow Shogon.