The Coincidence God                                          

The Coincidence God – Synopsis
The Coincidence God is a 61,000-word, first-person narration by John, an occasional writer and part-time consultant on security matters to the government. Snippets within the narrative suggest he has had special forces training.

John claims he is The Coincidence God, not only because he seems to attract many more coincidences than most people, he is given reason to believe that he can actually cause things to coincide when he wants them to.

Deciding he cannot cure all the world’s problems with what he calls his ‘superpower’, he elects to target Mehmet Dogan, a man he learns is a kingpin in the abominable people-smuggling and human-trafficking industries. To assist him, he recruits the help of people he has worked with, including those with IT expertise. Together with Bian, a Vietnamese lady who had lost her elder son and probably her elder daughter to people smugglers controlled by Dogan, they are able to bankrupt his organisation and remove him from the scene.

Bian then pleads with John to find out if her elder daughter, Linh had died in France as she had been told. He then goes to France and, with the help of a senior gendarme friend, discovers Linh is not only alive, but had been instrumental in the escape of other women in her situation and the return of their passports.

Consequently, she was being hunted by Sir Humphrey St John, an Englishman who controls human trafficking in Britain and France. John manages to catch up with Linh in time to prevent her from being killed by St John and takes her back to Australia to be reunited with her mother.

During the journey, upon Linh’s insistence he relates how, while serving in the navy, he was charged with a serious crime and, because of senior staff not believing he was innocent despite the charges being dropped, he is driven into a period of depression that causes him to resign. And how a young Iraqi girl, whom he had saved along with her family from the Taliban in Kabul, restores his sense of well-being by proving that he is completely innocent.

Believing that St John is still a danger and still heavily involved in human trafficking, John returns to confront him during a memorable cricket match between Australia and England that he knows St John will attend at Lord’s in London.