John Rickley Dumm: 9 books

Dreams and fears can last a lifetime. They can become interchangeable: the fear of never attaining the dream and the dream of overcoming an intimate fear. The Swings At Balfour is a light, amusing drama about both and the prospect of never finding either. At a private, all-girls high school...

There are many beautiful women but none like this.  She is statuesque. Her eyes change colors from brown to green or blue, and always with a sparkle of diamonds.What does she live for? What is her power? Above all, she seeks survival and adaptation. She’s naïve, somewhat childish, and inexperienced,...

Except for a 1962 primrose Cadillac convertible, disgraced and discredited Pulitzer Prize winning author, Antonio Delgado, has virtually lost everything, and on the edge of losing himself. He suffers bereavement and pain, strife and turmoil, misery and defeat in the depths of hopelessness from which...

The world is in turmoil. On fire! Nations of economic and military leadership and might seek differing goals, holding for ransom the world’s populace, threatening their sovereignty and freedom. The United States, China and Russia have each dealt their hands, but now North Korea and Iran are holding...

Dr. Raymond Skavenger is a devoted family man with a very successful career as an orthodontist. Unbeknownst to his family, however, he’s a former elite, anonymous Army sniper who once possessed unimaginable autonomous access and authority to carry out his missions, and now his past has thrust him...

Pamela Pearson is very dead from what appears to be a savage, hateful murder and a postmortem rape. The husband, editor Howard Pearson, is covered in her blood and in a catatonic state. When homicide captain James J. Moran finds the deceased’s diary and discovers the deceased is former collegiate...

The year is 2027. The world has become calm and committed through global policies made better through successful and responsible leadership. Even the most once-ardent skeptics acclaimed the shared cooperation among super powers and newly reinforced industrializing nations. Under the dome of...

What is resolved in Parts One & Two of the MACHINE Trilogy appears as isolated. Any connection among those entities remains remote as part three, Companion, begins. What does it all mean? What of the self-important, irascible Russian, Vacil Sarmindi; the pompous billionaire, Adam Eaves;...

The enigmatic, simplistic Jo Machine is in an extreme quandary! Well, that is, for her. She is suddenly trapped in a conspiracy that threatens the national security of the United States and she can’t reveal what she knows to those upon whom she trusts and relies. If that isn’t enough, Machine...