The Trapdoor blog is an insight into the author’s research in developing this exciting novel. Some pages from the original storybook are included in the blog with occasional handwritten notations.
The blogs allow the reader, if they choose, to move between the book and research within the blogs, by clicking on the links and delving into the material to enhance experience of locations and plots within the novel. (Images in the blog are place markers only.)
Chapter 4 and 5
Crowded Union Station Saturday Morning
Main Entrance Union Station
Global Financial Crisis
The report the analysts had been commissioned to do was a different take on the Global Financial Crisis.
Superannuation guarantee policy introduced by the Australian Government in 1992.
Chronology of superannuation and retirement income in Australia
Stocks, Bonds and derivatives
“The enormity of the story’s consequences had begun to sink in. Stocks, bonds, derivatives, interest rates and real estate formed the bulk of global investment income for retirement. If the underlying security of this income was being overinflated by lack of supply, then the lack of financial instability seen since 2008 began to make sense.”
Original story book files
EMP cage
Internet Surveillance
Breaking News
In the interest of National Security
The FBI
Federal Court Washington
National Security Agency
Andrew Dyhin 