"Wrongly Dead'' is humorous, suspenseful and threaded with riveting twists throughout, and has a large cast of fascinating characters. Will Seman is a wealthy and unscrupulous financial genius and former dramatic actor. His wife, Gertie, abetted by two friends, falsely accuses Will of brutally assaulting her. Concurrently, Will is mistakenly declared deceased by the Social Security Administration. Rather than trying to prove he is alive, he plays dead to avoid arrest, buy time while provin...

Idol is about a brilliant schizophrenic serial killer, Steven Wently, whose sensational murders of famous false idols receive universal publicity and public support. Wently imagines that the cumulative weight of revelations of crimes committed by false idols after their deaths will destroy humankinds faith in its heroes. He further reasons that such exposures will cast shadows over legitimacy of promises of mans immortality made by religious heroes like Christ, Hindu deities, and Muhammad....

In 1945, during the bombing of Dresden, nine-year-old Nemamiah Heinrich suffered burns and a concussion. After awakening from a coma, Nemamiah discovered he possessed telepathic powers that enabled him to make people do his bidding. Two years later, Nemamiah and his father emigrated from East Germany to the United States, making their home in Asheville, North Carolina. Here, they flourished and Nemamiah became a geriatric physician. The doctor witnesses the inhumane treatment and unnecessa...

In America, tensions between various political factions mounted, as did citizen dissatisfaction with, and resistance to, the nations transition to Socialism.2001-2014. The governmentconstructed three secret experimental communities (Commons): communist, fascist, and democratic. If revolution became imminent, the public would be informed of the experiment to give them hope for change and moderate their discontent until a more acceptable order was established.Twenty years lat...