James Ward

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The Seductive Scent of Empire (Tales of MI7, #15) (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

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 something fishy going on, and that all this is linked, seems intuitively obvious, and probably worth investigating. But then things take a turn for the strange. Atherton has an apparent breakdown; he gets up from his desk, leaves Thames House and apparently goes off radar. Important men and women across London start dying in violent circumstances. It simultaneously transpires that the mysterious Black Department is taking a close interest in all this. And not quite from its usual distance. Suddenly, John Mordred himself becomes the focus of intensely hostile scrutiny. And when he, too, goes off radar, it's because he no longer has a choice. At least, not if he wants to live. For a while, nothing seems to make sense. Then, shockingly, it does.

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James Ward lives and works in southern England and has been married for over forty years. He has two grown-up boys. His hobbies include walking with his dog in the countryside, visiting charity shops, and reading. He writes fiction, philosophy and poetry, and publishes under the "Cool Millennium Books" imprint (which he hopes one day to broaden to include other authors, and which has its own website). He has over 40,000 followers on TikTok, where he regularly posts videos about serious literature. He can also be found on YouTube.

His most ambitious project, the Tales of MI7 series, was written between 2010 and 2020. It consists of eighteen self-contained novels, set in contemporary London and linked by characters and timeline. It was never intended to be a "series" in the sense of a continuous narrative across different volumes; rather, readers can enjoy any one book without having read the others. All examine the major political, social, international and moral concerns of the second decade of the 21st century. Each individual volume - with the exception of Our Woman in Jamaica - was written contemporaneously with the year in which it was set.

Beginning in 2025 with Firearms & the Fortress, he intends to re-focus his energies on producing philosophical texts intended to throw light on the contemporary world (His 21st Century Philosophy and A New Theory of Justice were both produced over a decade ago). He has an MA and a DPhil in Philosophy, both from the University of Sussex.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cool Millennium
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781393045113
• Artikelnr.: 60728886