Paul Johnston skúma hĺbku ľudskej psychiky a zložitosť morálky prostredníctvom pútavých príbehov. Jeho diela sú plné napätia a často sa odohrávajú v exotickom prostredí, ktoré umocňuje atmosféru. Autor majstrovsky buduje napätie a vykresľuje postavy, ktoré čitateľa vtiahnu do deja. Jeho jedinečný štýl a prenikavý pohľad na ľudskú povahu z neho robia nezabudnuteľného rozprávača.
Když se v dalším z příběhů soukromý detektiv Alex Mavros rozhodne převzít pátrání po pohřešované mladé dívce, imigrantce z bývalého Sovětského svazu, netuší, že by právě tento případ mohl mít něco společného s nájemnými vraždami, jejichž počet v Aténách náhle povážlivě narostl. Brzy zjišťuje, že vlna násilí má své kořeny už v dobách plukovnické diktatury, a aniž by si to uvědomoval, vystaví sebe i ženu, kterou miluje, smrtelnému nebezpečí.
Když se v dalším z příběhů soukromý detektiv Alex Mavros rozhodne převzít pátrání po pohřešované mladé dívce, imigrantce z bývalého Sovětského svazu, netuší, že by právě tento případ mohl mít něco společného s nájemnými vraždami, jejichž počet v Aténách náhle povážlivě narostl. Brzy zjišťuje, že vlna násilí má své kořeny už v dobách plukovnické diktatury, a aniž by si to uvědomoval, vystaví sebe i ženu, kterou miluje, smrtelnému nebezpečí.
Bohatý Turkoameričan najímá za vysokou odměnu Alexe Mavrose, aby na ostrově Trigono pátral po jeho nezvěstné sestře. Alex se rád dostane na čas z dosahu svých tří žen /matky, sestry a přítelkyně/, brzy však pozná, že na malebném ostrůvku se děje příliš mnoho podezřelého: smrt mladé místní dvojice, nekalé obchody, unesené ženy a jeskyně plná krutých zločinů. Vším prolíná i dávná příhoda z válečných let, schovaná za zdí mlčení a nenávisti. Vzrušujícímu detektivnímu románu vévodí exotické prostředí a zajímavá postava hlavního hrdiny Mavrose, v němž se sváří krev jeho skotských a řeckých předků Napínavý příběh se odehrává na jednom z řeckých ostrovů, kde soukromý detektiv Mavros pátrá po zmizelé Američance a odkrývá přitom mnohá tajemství
IRAKLIS - a mysterious Greek terrorist group. A rogue offshoot of the communist party. At its head, a man with many names. An elusive master assassin who has been in exile for ten years. ALEX MAVROS - half-Greek, half-Scottish investigator. A man driven by the desire to find his missing brother, last heard of at an underground resistance meeting during the dictatorship. GRACE HELMER - an American who saw her father murdered when she was a child. Iraklis was responsible. Two businessmen are murdered in Athens. The trademark piece of olive wood is found with the victims' bodies. Iraklis is back. And Grace Helmer employs Mavros to track down her father's killer.
A critical examination of contemporary moral theory reveals significant contradictions in the ability to make correct moral judgments. The author, Paul Johnston, explores the divisions within moral philosophy, highlighting the tension between those who doubt the possibility of accurate judgments regarding others' actions and those focused on defining "right" versus "wrong." His analysis uncovers how recent philosophical efforts often fail to resolve these inherent contradictions, offering a radical perspective on the state of modern moral thought.
The idea of the Inner is central to our concept of a person and so lies at the heart of all our interaction. But how should this concept be understood? What do we mean when we wonder what is going on inside our heads? Clearly the inner world is not literally inside us, but if not, where is it? Although the idea of the Inner is central to our comprehension of ourselves, what does it actually mean? Using Wittgenstein's recently published writings on the philosophy of psychology, together with unpublished material, Paul Johnston present a thorough account of a subject central to Wittgenstein's later work. He shows that Wittgenstein's arguments involve a radical rethinking of our understanding of the Inner and present a challenge to contemporary views which has yet to be fully appreciated or understood. Written in a non-technical and readable style, this book shows how a Wittgensteinian approach can dissolve age-old problems about the nature of consciousness and the relation between the mind, the body and the soul. The resultant picture of the Inner, with its stress on the special role of language, throws new light on the direction of Wittgenstein's work and presents a stimulating and controversial alternative to more fashionable positions on the subject.
I awake in a windowless room naked, filthy, bruised, robbed of my every memory. I feel inexplicably drowned in a sea of hatred and rage. I don't know who I am. But I know I must escape. Crime writer Matt Wells could never have conjured a plot this twisted. A secretive militia running brainwashing experiments in a remote location have made him a subject. He knows they have been feeding him instructions, but why? Taunted by maddening snatches of a life he can't trust as his own including memories of a woman he feels he should remember Matt's accused of three gruesome murders. On the run from his kidnappers and the law, Matt must piece everything together before it's too late. Blood, gore and ingenious twists I loved it. Kate Atkinson Johnston does an expert job Great stuff. Laura Wilson, Guardian Fast, furious and twisted as hell. Mark Billingham PRAISE FOR THE DEATH LIST AND THE SOUL COLLECTOR
It's April 2028. Youth gangs roam the streets of independent Edinburgh, forcing the ruling Council of City Guardians to seek advice. Experts from the utopian university-state of New Oxford recommend a maximum security prison alongside the central tourist zone, but at the prison opening ceremony an Edinburgh guardian is shot. Quint gathers evidence linking New Oxford to the assassination. Sent there to close the case, he finds a ruthless administration beneath the glossy hi-tech veneer, and a conspiracy which leads from New Oxford's mysterious heart to his home city.
Edinburgh, 2025 - sweat city. Global warming has led to strict water rationing. The ruling Council of City Guardians has been forced to become more user-friendly - so citizens now live for the weekly lottery draw. Then people start dying after drinking poisoned whisky, and subversive, blues-haunted investigator Quintilian Dalrymple is thrown into a nightmare case which threatens the Council's very existence. For Quint, distinguishing friend from foe soon becomes a question of life or death. And the body count, like the temperature, keeps on rising...
It is 2026, and Edinburgh is an independent state. A break-in at the former Scottish parliament archive is followed by two murders, the victims covered with blood-drenched branches. Before Quint Dalrymple can figure out what is going on, Edinburgh's brightest teenagers are spirited away to the feared city-state of Glasgow.
