Paul Johnston duikt via meeslepende verhalen in de diepten van de menselijke psyche en de complexiteit van moraliteit. Zijn werken barsten van de spanning, vaak gesitueerd tegen sfeervolle achtergronden die de atmosfeer versterken. Johnston weet meesterlijk spanning op te bouwen en personages te ontwikkelen die de lezer meeslepen in zijn ingewikkelde plots. Zijn onderscheidende stem en inzichtelijke verkenning van de menselijke natuur maken hem tot een memorabele verteller.
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 Using Wittgenstein's recently published writings on the philosophy of psychology, together with unpublished material, Paul Johnston present a thorough account of a subject central to Wittgenstein's later work.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.
Brutally targeted by the "White Devil" serial killer, crime writer Matt Wells knows what it's like to look evil in the face and survive. He's rebuilt his life—but with a disciple of his tormentor still at large, he has never stopped looking over his shoulder.When mystery writers start dying and his friend is found murdered, Matt's paranoia appears well-founded. Now he must use all his resources to orchestrate the psychopath's end. But as cryptic clues to the next victims mock him, it is chillingly clear that his dance with the devil has only just begun.…
It is the 21st century and 2 private investigators in Edinburgh are trying to solve a series of murders in which music tapes are planted inside the victims and the solution lies in The Boneyard. If they can ever find out what The Boneyard is.
When wealthy Greek ship-owner Kostas Gatsos is kidnapped, his desperate family hire private investigator Alex Mavros to help. Inherently suspicious of the super-rich, Mavros finds himself embroiled in the dealings of a highly dysfunctional family with more than a few skeletons in its closet, a family whose tentacles have a surprisingly wide reach.
Quint Dalrymple investigates the strange disappearance of the Lord of the Isles in this gripping dystopian thriller.November, 2038. Scotland has been reunified and Edinburgh's thirty-year experiment with supposedly benevolent totalitarianism is over. But there's still plenty of work for ex-investigator Quint Dalrymple, who's looking into an attempted strangling in Leith. A young man has been attacked by an assailant wearing a bizarre tree-fish costume.Before Quint can make headway, he is asked by the head of government to look into the strange disappearance of the Lord of the Isles. How could Angus Macdonald, leader of the opposition, have vanished from inside his locked bedroom while his valet was sitting outside? And why has a severed finger been hidden in the room? When a body is discovered, arranged in a disturbingly macabre pose, it becomes clear the two cases are linked. As Quint delves further, he is drawn into a complex web of deception whose threads lead far back into his past ...
