A Trace of Smoke

Dr. O. J. Bryson - friends and family call him ’Jay’ - and his two ’pound’ dogs, Silver and Shadow, live on a mountain overlooking the Tennessee River, in the shadow of the Smoky Mountains. The suspense/thriller A Trace of Smoke is his first published novel. He is published in Writer’s Digest, in American Airline’s magazines, in the YMCA’s magazine Focus, and in Amway’s Amagram. Bryson, a university professor/administrator turned businessman, has nonfiction books published in English, French, and Korean, and the Tennessee Humanities Council has featured him at their annual Southern Festival of Books. In high school and college, Bryson raced motorcycles and boxed in the Golden Gloves. As a professor, he toured for the State Department with the USO. He has two sons, Scott and Chris, and one daughter-in-law, Tina. Tina is about to make him a grandfather.