by Karl Rockwood

The Very Private Secretary is a novel-and, we feel, an important one-about the advertising business and the living, breathing people who work in it. Its protagonist is Reid Hartley, who enjoys an enviable reputation in the profession but lately has been in a severe slump. Somehow, the old glibness which enabled him to devise highly successful ad campaigns in the past has deserted him... and, perhaps, he has begun to question some of his own basic assumptions.