Books published by David Dvorkin

When he could no longer deceive himself about his guilt, he left, returning to a place few people chose to leave. The person most important in his life had left that place, too, but surely she had not chosen to do so.He took with him what he considered appropriate pay for the services he had rendered.Fleeing the mob he worked for in Chicago, Tom Hamilton returns to his Colorado hometown. When a singer is murdered during a local opera performance, Tom tries his hand at finding the killer. But this draws him back into the passions and hatreds of earlier years and puts his own life in danger.

Seduced and killed by a beautiful woman, Richard Venneman wakes as a vampire.Because he loathes what he''s become, because his irresistible need for human blood horrifies him, he seeks the only salvation he can imagine: incinerating himself in the experimental fusion reactor where he worked when he was alive.But the terrible vitality of vampire flesh betrays him.Once again, he wakes changed-into an even more powerful and awful being, a monster who can feed only on the blood of vampires, a nightmare who dreams of his own destruction in a terrible ocean of blood.

Richard Venneman, former vampire, weeps in frustration. His prey has eluded him.That prey is a vampire. Venneman was the first vampire in history to transform himself into an even more terrible being who preyed on vampires. And then he was the first to become human again. Now he hungers-not for blood, but to find a vampire who will make him a vampire for the second time.His obsessions have forced others through strange transformations. Karen Belmont, trapped between human form and werewolf shape, hungers for both blood and flesh. Elizabeth Vall├⌐, content for three centuries to be a beautiful, seductive vampire, has become the stalker of vampires that Venneman once was-but monstrous in size and appetites.Now Elizabeth wants an eternal soulmate and has chosen Venneman, while Karen is hunting him so that she can take revenge by tearing him apart.Their meeting will trigger a catastrophe.

Trapped in the underground tunnels of Colliery, James Benton struggles to find his way back to the surface and the life he knew before. "A headlong trip over, under, and through worlds of greed, sex, politics, intrigue, and adventure, of miners and mindpickers, cavesnakes and triple-crossers. An absorbing mix of hard science and action sf, with the unmistakable Dvorkin touch." - Connie Willis

Three hundred million strong, the Third Reich dominates the world. With its booming industry, its advanced science and technology, its fearsome war machine, and its colonies on the Moon, the Reich is envied and feared by the rest of the world and invites imitation.Matters almost didn''t turn out this way. During World War II, German troops only narrowly averted disaster at Stalingrad. But after the F├╝hrer''s death on the Russian front and the subsequent accession to power of more reasonable men, Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to a peace treaty that left Germany in control of Continental Europe and free to prosecute the war against the greater threat of Bolshevism.Now, decades later, America tries to convince itself that it is still the world''s greatest power, even while its government and society, increasingly influenced by the Reich, devolve into something that would have horrified the Founding Fathers. America made its deal with the Devil in 1943, and now it is paying the price.Chic Western works as a government spy within U.S. federal agencies. He is adept at assuming new identities and earning the trust of fellow employees so that he can uncover wrongdoing. He tries not to think about the results of his work. Punishment is swift and harsh in this America.When anti-German subversion is detected in the American embassy in Berlin, Chic is posted to the mighty heart of the Reich to uncover it. He is finally forced to confront the conflict between his conscience, his Jewish ancestry, and the reality that hides behind evil''s seductive face.