John S Budd: 3 books

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...

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...

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...