Dan Riker is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Baltimore School of Law. He was a reporter, bureau manager, regional news editor and sales executive for United Press International, Assistant Public Relations Director at The Johns Hopkins University, Assistant Press Secretary to the Governor of Maryland, an executive at the MCI Communications Corporation, and CEO of Pocket Communications, Inc. He and his late wife, Janis Ahalt Riker (1944-2014), operated Basset Books LLC, a dealer in used, collectible and out-of-print books from 1998 to 2012 when they moved to Portland, Oregon. A LIGHT NOT OF THIS WORLD was Dan's first novel. SENECA POINT was his second, and he has finished a third, THE BLUE GIRL MURDERS, a historical mystery set in Baltimore in 1966. He also has just finished his first work of non-fiction, DO WHAT WORKS AND CALL IT CAPITALISM, and has been publishing excerpts of the book on his blog, www.danriker.blogspot.com, on www.progressiveamericanthought.blogsp..., on www.Truth-out.org and on www.dailykos.com. He can be reached at danriker@danriker.com
