Padre Serra Novels: Paper (Padre Serra Novels) (ePub)

In 2015 Dean Caldwell agreed to publish seven of his novels, which until now, had only been circulated among a limited group of friends.   These seven delve into the nuances of peoples lives as they are captured in the net of critical historical moments.



The Padre Serra series: Fog, Oil and Paper novels are set in coastal California in a period after the Korean War into the technological free for all rising of the Silicon Valley.  Fog reconciles California's past with the then present.  Oil asserts the seemingly intransigent environmental sentiment of the generation on California.  Paper confronts the  lure of investment among those who now have some disposable income to risk.  Throughout the novels the life of a single family and their friends give breath and personality to an era unique in American and world history.



Barbara and Dominic are two art majors with post graduate degrees.  Their parents connive with the European Arts and Culture Directorate to utilize them and their education in an attempt to dent the proliferation of fraudulent art on the world market.  Through three novels that take place in a span of less than a year they sort out their personal relationship and goals as they solve a multi layer art mystery that has persisted since the end of the Second World War.   The titles of the Barbara and Dominic series are:  In for a Penny, in for a Pound,  If it Looks Like a Duck and Gordian Knot.



I'll lay You 5:1 is an unsympathetic novelistic look at what is arguably a very minor reason for the Viet Nam conflict.  If the premise is true, and there is some evidence that it is, this brutal novel is how that evidence could have been uncovered.



All seven novels are available now, or will be shortly, in digital form.