Bøger af Patrick O'Sullivan

This book takes a fresh look at an age-old controversy in ethics and political economy that stretches right back to Aristotle: the morality and the economics of debt financing, or the charging of interest on loans. It endeavours to show the immense relevance of those ancient debates in the contemporary economy .

ONE GIRL. ONE HELLHOUND. ONE CHANCE TO SAVE THE WORLD.A map. A riddle. And her first job in the city. Maddy Dune possesses everything she needs to search for Tan, her soulmate and missing heir to the throne. Everything, until the dragon arrives and shreds her plans to tatters.Taking control of the city's police, Tan's scaly southern cousin butts in, forcing Maddy's adoptive family to scarper off to a rural town where ancient magic rules. And where an inexperienced but hard-working half-hellhound enchanter has zero chance of tracking down her misplaced prince.Maddy's new backwater home-in-exile has nothing. No magical wards, no magic amplifying fog, no friends in low places, no allies in high positions. And surprise, the townspeople hate her enchanter father and loathe her foreign-born mother. Things can't get worse until they do. It's almost as if someone planned to stop her from finding Tan. Plotted to make her and her family suffer. Schemed to poison all joy while destroying everything and everyone Maddy loves.Which is absurd. Maddy isn't important enough to have an enemy like that. Besides, no one is that clever. That powerful. That connected. Not even a dragon could arrange all that. It would take a cabal, and everyone knows dragons work alone.Don't they?Maddy Dune and the Martyr's Crown is the third volume in the Fogbound Realm gas lamp fantasy series by Patrick O'Sullivan. If you like your fantasy more Edwardian than Victorian, your magic more alchemy than steam, and your supernatural neighbors more folkloric than shifty you're in the right neighborhood.The adventure continues. Explore the unexpected world of the Fogbound Realm and Maddy Dune and the Martyr's Crown today!

They say you can never go home again.Ciarán mac Diarmuid knows that saying isn't about a scientific fact. It's a convenient lie people tell themselves and others. The truth about such sayings isn't what gets said, but what doesn't. The fact is you can go home again.And when Ciarán does?Trouble knows exactly where to find him.Now Merchant Captain Ciarán mac Diarmuid must decide. Just how far will he go to protect his home and family?The sky is not the limit.It's only the beginning.Note to Readers: This story is a prequel to Impossibly Alien and a bridge between the Quite Possibly series of stories and the new series of adventures beginning with Impossibly Alien. Singularity Sun also includes the Indecent Proposal, a secret communication and tell-all summary of the hidden history of the Freeman Universe.Long time readers may find Singularity Sun a useful refresher. Readers just beginning the series with Impossibly Alien may find the Indecent Proposal's revelations particularly illuminating.Singularity Sun. Book 4.5 in the Freeman Universe series. Read it today!

Only he can stop them. And only she can save him.Undead sorcerers stalk the fogbound streets, hunting victims to power their death magic. Crypto-naturalist pirates surface from their watery graves, determined to shatter the delicate truce between humans and their reluctant neighbors, the magical and unpredictable Folk.And when Professor of Enchantment Eusebius Quille arrives at the scene of a gruesome murder he discovers only one man possesses the power to stop them. But to do so he must enlist the help of the only woman he has ever loved. And the last person in the world he wants involved.Detective Inspector Nadine Oortsgarten has no use for unsubstantiated claims and absurdly fantastic theories. She already has her suspect. A disreputable enchanter with a shadowy past, known criminal associates, and an extremely short life expectancy. A man she has had her eye on for quite some time. Professor of Enchantment Eusebius Quille.Beneath the Hidden Gyre is the first volume in the Fogbound Realm gas lamp fantasy series by Patrick O'Sullivan. If you like your fantasy more Edwardian than Victorian, your magic more alchemy than steam, and your supernatural neighbors more folkloric than shifty then you've come to the right neighborhood.The adventure begins right now. Explore the unexpected world of the Fogbound Realm and Beneath the Hidden Gyre today!

We do not come in peace. Hired to follow in the reckless footsteps of a madman, Ciarán mac Diarmuid and the crew of Quite Possibly Alien agree to cross the Alexandrine on their way to a shattered Earth no explorer has set eyes on in six thousand years.Tricked into taking on fugitive passengers, the ship and crew find themselves entangled in a universe-spanning web of lies centuries in the spinning. And when a hidden conflict simmering beneath the surface of the League erupts into bloody civil war their options narrow until a single path remains. Forward, into the unknown.Pursued by relentless enemies, racing toward the limits of known space, they plot a perilous course toward a solitary gateway, where a deathless enemy awaits. And where every lie will be answered, not with another lie, but with a revelation that will unite humanity. Or purge it from the stars.Impossibly Alien is book five in the Freeman Universe space opera adventure series by Patrick O'Sullivan. If you like unconventional characters, plots that twist and turn, and cat-friendly heroes that talk as fast as they shoot then you've come to the right launch pad.Are you ready for ignition? Start reading Impossibly Alien today.

"A Green One for Woody" is a true story about a boy becoming a man. And while themes of abuse and alcoholism are common in memoirs, there is nothing common about how Patrick O'Sullivan patiently peels away the textured layers of his life to reveal truths that will cause readers to both marvel and despair, and, sometimes, celebrate.From the author..."My dad had been anointed to resurrect our family name, sullied for decades by alcoholism and suicide. He was big, bright and handsome, and blessed with a silver tongue and athletic prowess. The Tigers and the Cubs wanted him. Instead, his dad insisted he attend the University of Michigan, but a broken leg on the practice field ended his big league dreams. Then he met my mom and she got pregnant, and with my heart beating inside, she denied to her preacher dad that I was there."Years of boozing and abuse took their toll; being poor didn't help, and his dad continued his downward spiral across the years of the author's young life. But over another decade, buoyed by friendships and uncommon love, Patrick O'Sullivan was propelled forward by an inimitable sense of humor and a faith anchored in hope.This is his story of becoming a man.

He was born bent. He refuses to die broken.Raised a merchant prince and heir to the family business, Seamus mac Donnacha expects to follow in his crime lord father's footsteps, profiting from the indiscretions of saints and sinners alike. But when Seamus returns from his apprentice cruise maimed, disgraced, and branded a slaver he discovers he's no longer needed. Disowned and tossed down the Trinity system gravity well, Seamus wants to do as his father demands.Crawl away and die.Maybe he will, once he's kept his word, and helped his friends defeat the evil spreading from star to star. He knows more about that evil than any man alive. It's been inside him.Seamus doesn't want to defy his father. And he doesn't want to war with his family. Only a dead man would dare to cross them. Only a man who deserved to pay for his sins. Crawl away and die. Seamus doesn't know what to think about that. But he knows exactly what to say."Make me."