Bøger af Colin Barker

Markham seemed to have everything-except perhaps a loving wife. His elegant home in Santa Fe housed contemporary art, and he'd just inherited his father's European collection. But that's when the trouble started. While working with the paintings, Helen, an art historian from the university, was shot and killed; later a painting was stolen; and then an Italian concert pianist staying at the house died in a bizarre piano explosion. Professor Candrew Nor, Helen's colleague, gets embroiled and from crime scene details concludes that the killer was quite short. Suspicion falls on the Hispanic handyman. But Markham's estranged brother had been left out of the fathers will and several other people have reasons for murder. Candrew meets the maid Zona, a sixties holdover, and then at Helen's funeral is introduced to Professor LaBarre, her mentor from Yale. Both have roles that are not at first clear and it takes Candrew's logic and scientific skills to pin down the murderers.

Professor Candrew Nor is embroiled in solving the latest crime in the dramatic canyons of the Four Corners area. This time a geology faculty member dies in a tragic drowning accident while on a field trip with students - or so it seems. But this is no accident, it's murder. Candrew, the victim's colleague at a university in northern New Mexico, struggles to make sense of the situation. Why would anyone want him killed? Could it be a colleague, a jealous wife, an academic competitor? And how would they have orchestrated such an accident in front of dozens of students? But then a retired mercenary contacts Candrew. He's working for a wealthy Californian industrialist who is determined to add a T. rex to his extensive dinosaur collection. Candrew is drawn in and discovers that his colleague had been involved with an illegal fossil excavation. Left unanswered are questions about the mysterious Jason, and KT, and Antares. Before resolving these, he stumbles on a second dead faculty member and is himself shot at while visiting the dinosaur site out in the canyons. How could a WWT. rex death 65 million years ago echo down through time and trigger more deaths now?

Nick, an astronomy graduate student, dies in a laboratory fire in what is later shown to be murder. He had stumbled on alien signal coming from Europa as a series of on-off methane pulses that formed a digital signal. Because of his stormy relationship with his arrogant professor, Nick had not acknowledged that there were previous signals he'd recorded, but the geology professor Candrew Nor is able to get a copy of this early part of the message, although he can't at first decode the pages of arcane numbers. Candrew's search for Nick's murderer is complicated by the international importance of message, and by the arrival on campus of an English astronomer (who is later abducted), a visiting pastor Rhodes (from the HighRhode to Heaven), Nick's wife (attacked in her house), and a graduate student from Indian (who has sophisticated monitoring equipment). Candrew himself is attacked at his office by an unknown foreigner. It takes detailed analysis of debris from the burnt lab to finally tie the murderer to the crime.

Oliver unexpectedly finds himself as the chosen representative of humanity at the upcoming cosmic enquiry that will judge humans against artificial Intelligence. To gather his evidence he sets off, transiting first to the Shadow-side to meet Lord Sebastian - an advocate for humanity - and Galactic controller Ovoid - who is most certainly not.

Five times in the last 40 years, the working class has posed a radical alternative to the status quo.

This work assesses protest and collective action in terms of movements such as the anti-poll tax initiative, the women's movement, class struggle, the East German Revolution of 1989, desertion problems in the German Army from 1917 to 1920, and Militant in Liverpool.