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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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Something's not right aboard the cruise ship Aurora. Yet that's probably what you would think, when you're with the girl you love and everyone else is about fifty years your senior. You're 3000-miles from home, young, and high on emotion. Maybe it just ratchets up the sense of adventure.
And yet, perhaps something really is wrong. There's the passenger everyone thought was dead, but who reappears one evening in the lounge without comment or explanation....
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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...
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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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After a chance skirmish with an armed killer in central London, agent John Mordred ends up in hospital, condition critical.
Six weeks and a full recovery later, he's persuaded it's purely a police matter, so one he should forget about.
But, nothing in MI7 is ever that simple. There's more, to this particular incident than meets the eye and unnamed people in high places want it investigating. They believe Mordred is the man for the job.
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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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The last instalment in the Tales of MI7 series! Ruby's Parker's retirement hangs like a dark cloud over MI7. She herself has only a vague idea what the future might hold — both personally, and in terms of national security. But for many of her team, she's irreplaceable. To cap it all, there's a massive organisational overhaul on the cards at Thames House. Everyone's nervous, and with good reason. In the middle of all this uncertainty, there's an...
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In Afghanistan, British secret servicewoman Marcie Brown, posing as the third wife of one of ISAF's most trusted operatives, is killed in a drone strike.
Or at least, that's what the official report states. Deep inside enemy territory, what remains of her body is deemed irrecoverable.
Seven thousand miles away, her grieving husband, MI7 officer Nicholas Fleming, joins a police investigation which stumbles onto an Islamist plot to bomb central London....
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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...
12) World War O
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"World War Offshore" – no one knows how it started, or who's behind it, but one thing's for certain: it's the biggest anti-capitalist demonstration the world has ever seen. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators, spread across six continents, demanding an end to the "non-accountability of the 1%", re-regulation of the world's financial services, and a new era of social justice.
MI7 takes the view that it's a problem best left to the appropriate...
13) 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...
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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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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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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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...
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By universal consensus, there's only one exhibition worth seeing at this year's Venice Biennale. Giuditta Cancellieri's Il Timore di Dio, six paintings of something as yet undisclosed. Don't bother buying tickets, though. A court order means no one's getting in, not even the artist's closest associates.
And the city's been filling with felons. Most observers don't think that's an accident: at least one rumour suggests the paintings depict Italy's...
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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 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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