John C Payne: 7 books

How can such a horrendous act of violence take place in a mental health hospital where all patients are closely monitored. Four patients and two nurses are tagged as persons of interest in the murder. The CIA and FBI are investigating because of a possible al-Oaeda cell operating in the hospital or...

The biblical marriage pact has remained consistent in its interpretation since the beginning of mankind. That is to say "what therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." Mark 10-9. The separation component has often become commonplace, human nature being what it is. Lust,...

Cancer treatment is at hand. A San Francisco lawyer owns a falcon, a wealthy womanizer from Chicago owns a python and a gay man from Paris owns a bulldog. All three are in the terminal stage of melanoma and are warehoused waiting to die. But, their pets are in rare form, keeping them alive. They learn...

Fictional account of a couple managing an apartment building in downtown San Francisco and the many challenges presented by both the owner of the complex and the interesting residents. Each chapter presents a descriptive scenario and sometimes strange interchange between the main characters in the book. Did the Zodiac killer of the late 60's really live here?

The primary setting of this book focuses on an independently owned private investigation business in Chicago. Rod meets up with an old Army buddy on a cruise out of Galveston, Texas and also an interesting school teacher. Bradley Simmons operates the agency. Rod conducts some initial surveillance...

Stage Three: Rod Richards Returns contains three books in the my fictional Three and Out Trilogy. The first book is The Saga of A San Francisco Apartment Manager which embodies humor on a true-life, fiction platform. The book highlights the interpersonal relationships of the diverse and interesting...

Jamie Richards is reunited with his old friend, Denis Sweeny, former Navy SEAL and chief protagonist. Jamie has lived a terrible life of risk-taking, sinfulness, and disregard for acceptable human behavior. Nothing could ever stop him. But in the end, justice was served. ISIS is everywhere, spreading...