James Ward

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The Ultimate Londoner (Tales of MI7, #12) (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

"Readers will find John Mordred to be one of the most appealing characters in fiction today." - Publisher's Daily.

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, plus an awards ceremony on the top floor of The Gherkin, clearly it's no joke. MI7 looks into it as a matter of urgency, and things go from mysterious to bizarre. Uncanny, even. For a start, no one in the mainstream media or elsewhere has the faintest idea where it originated. And not even the 'candidates' themselves know how they were selected. For Mordred, the unsolicited exposure is profoundly unwelcome. But maybe that's the whole idea. So far, so irritating. And inconvenient. Then the candidates start dying. As Mordred investigates, the truth slowly emerges. And it's stranger and more deadly than anyone could possibly have imagined. The Ultimate Londoner. Who will you vote for? "John Mordred comes alive on the page and is a character readers will not soon forget." - The Booklife Review

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Autor

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: 25. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781540197535
• Artikelnr.: 57552591