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The first of the John Mordred Tales of MI7 novels!
"Readers will find John Mordred to be one of the most appealing characters in fiction today." – Publisher's Daily.
"John Mordred comes alive on the page and is a character readers will not soon forget." – The Booklife Review.
When a cabal of Russian oligarchs instigates unrest
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Everyone knows UK general elections aren't what they used to be. British politics, Westminster in particular, is mired in an integrity crisis. Expenses scandals, cash for questions, a tainted honours system and other wrong-turns have created a deeply disillusioned electorate.
Enter Real Alternative, a bold new party with a youthful, charismatic leader and a radical manifesto. True, it stands to win very few seats, but what really matters is that...
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21st Century Philosophy uses selected popular texts, all written in the last decade, as a window through which to examine contemporary social and cultural issues. What are the long-term prospects for 'New Atheism'? On balance, is the United States chiefly a force for good, or is it bent on hegemony? Is the optimism of the Enlightenment a historical curiosity, or can it be revived? To what extent can quality fiction enlarge the modern imagination,...
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April 2016. John Mordred never expected to come under hostile scrutiny from deep within his own organisation. Assigned to investigate the disappearance of a prominent Leave MP, he suddenly finds himself fighting his corner from several different directions.
First, there's the anonymous "radicalisation" charge against him; then there's the ever-changing list of major suspects. Even the missing MP may not be all she appears… or appeared. Finally,...
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John Mordred knows exactly what to make of "fake news", and how seriously to take it. It's just a trendy name for one of politics' oldest gimmicks.
Take its latest incarnation. Can it really be that a few maverick intelligence agents from Russia and the United States are fighting a discreet battle-to-the-death on some of London's back streets? And, that the corpses are piling up, out of sight of the British police? And, even that the whole, thing...
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When someone starts assassinating paparazzi in three countries, MI7 sits up. Apparently, the killer is none other than Dmitri Vassyli Kramski, retired SVR field-operative and former Kremlin protégé. True, the Cold War is long finished, but everyone knows Vladimir Putin is as unhappy for Russia to play second fiddle on the international stage as even the most strident of his Communist predecessors. In 2010 therefore, East-West relations remain as...
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Twenty-five poems covering subjects like the difference between Cow Parsley and Hogweed, the ghosts of Pevensey Castle, school exams, the history of flies, Rawls's Veil of Ignorance, train journeys to distant universes, Jack O'Kent, eviction, Humphrey Bogart, and shopping.
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Sometimes the ballot box and the bullet aren't incompatible...
Jamaica, 1980. With a general election looming, the left-of-center People's National Party stands to win a third term of radical social reform. Ties with Russia and Cuba will be, strengthened. The IMF will be, shown the door. Newly hatched revolutionary movements, like the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and the JRG in El Salvador, will be encouraged.
Neither London nor Washington wants any...
9) Libya Story
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Out of the blue, your sister gets kidnapped in one of the world's worst war-zones. As a top British intelligence officer, everyone agrees you're the ideal person to mount a rescue, only protocol forbids it. So you resign. Your name is John Mordred, the country is Libya, and what happens next is uncertain. All you know is, there are as many good as bad people in this world, alliances for justice – no matter how improbable – are always possible,...
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When the 14-year-old daughter of a British government minister leaves the country to join ISIS, MI7 despatches a cohort of agents to Turkey to intercept her en route.
However, maybe not everything is as it seems. How to explain, for example, her long-standing prior antipathy to Islamofascism? Her sudden conversion to radicalism on the very day of her departure? The fact that there is neither sight nor sign of her in Istanbul - or elsewhere?
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When Ruby Parker, Head of MI7's Red Department, is hospitalised by a burglar, all is not as it seems. Her removal coincides with a series of catastrophes for British spies in hostile territories abroad, and some very shifty behaviour by the new Acting Head of Red Department, Patrick Atherton. Atherton dislikes Red's established hierarchy, which includes all its officers without exception, and possibly John Mordred in particular.The idea that there's...
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When John Mordred leaves MI7, marries the woman he loves, and settles down to a relatively humdrum lifestyle, it ought to be a brave new start. But he and his wife have formerly been top-level spies, and they find the readjustment harder than they anticipated.When - courtesy of a friend, and apparently out of the blue - they're offered an all-expenses-paid holiday in Malta, it seems the answer to both their prayers. Sunshine, relaxation and romance....
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Is justice best understood as flowing from a social contract, or is there something else going on? How can we explain the many divergent notions of justice throughout history? Is it even possible to give a separate account of justice (as opposed to, say, social convention or morality)?
These are some of the questions considered in A New Theory of Justice. But there are other essays in here, other questions, and other (tentative) answers. Is it possible...
14) Humankind 2.0
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It's early 2020. MI7 is expecting an eccentric new recruit in the person of Chasha Jones, self-described (only partly tongue-in-cheek) as "the most intelligent woman in London." Perceptive, cerebral, fun to work alongside, everyone looks forward to her arrival. But on the day she's due to start work, there's no sign of her. Nor the day after. Then shockingly, it turns out she's joined an obscure cult run by an eccentric Briton called Hector Raynebow....
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Please note: this is a work of fiction NOT a compendium of local folklore. Could there really be a gargantuan snake, sleeping the sleep of the ages, somewhere beneath a hillock, just outside Wadhurst? And are there other, equally strange, beings 'living' (if we can really use that term) beneath the same earth? Was there once a spectacular magical 'obelisk' sited in a local field? And, while we're on the subject, who, or what, is 'The Oilman'? Where...
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Charles Swinter is eighty, fabulously wealthy and, since the sudden death of his estranged wife, Vivienne, seemingly on top of the world. It's time to go abroad in search of true love.
Anticipating the inevitable disapproval of his friends, he covers his tracks in England before departing. It's none of their business, after all, and no one knows what's good for him like he does. Charles quickly locates what he considers the ideal woman. Nongnuch...
17) The BBC Hunters
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2019. Russia's Web Brigades have created a divided West, but both the European and the American intelligence services are getting wise to their tactics. When Stanislav Kuznetsov, the FSB's Director of Overseas Strategic Affairs, entrusts a group of young idealists with the task of devising the next phase in the disruption of Russia's enemies, little does he suspect that six weeks later, they'll come up with a plan to suborn the British Broadcasting...
18) The Latest Noel
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The Latest Noel is a collection of poems on subjects as diverse as British Summer Time, car boot sales, the 20th century thinker Georges Bataille, the connection between bird watching and waterfalls and Marxism, Valentine's Day, English folklore, Magpies, extraterrestrials visiting the Earth, and Christmas. If you're a fan of the 'I feel pain more deeply and sensitively than anyone who's ever lived' type of verse, it probably won't be your cup of...
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Agent John Mordred gets a nasty shock when he finds himself touted in the press as one of ten potential "Ultimate Londoners". Especially given that he's spent his entire adult life trying to pass beneath the radar of just about anyone with a camera or a microphone. Yet with a five million pound first prize at stake, plus an awards ceremony on the top floor of The Gherkin, it's clearly no joke.
MI7 looks into it as a matter of urgency, and things...
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True love isn't always a bed of roses. Sometimes it's a no-holds-barred battle to the death with the incarnation of evil.
Prem's wedding to Nasreen collapses, when she uncharacteristically bows to her conscience and walks out of the ceremony. He wanders alone to the town center where he bumps into Ursula, a gypsy refugee from Eastern Europe, who manages to convince him she's someone she's not. Warming to her, despite his ordeal, and dimly sensing...
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