Kirjahaku

Philip looks back at his life so far, a long and complicated journey. First there was his conversion at an evangelical crusade, followed by a critical retracing of the origins of Christianity and then his reception into the Catholic Church, with whose present condition he is deeply unhappy.At the same time there was his sometimes comic education by the women in his life: Faith, who rejected him as a lover but remained his friend, Rachel, who became his wife, and Amanda, his therapist. These personal events, he recalls, took place alongside more public events in the life of the Anglican and CatholicChurches, including the Second Vatican Council, the debates over the ordination of women and the problem of the sexual abuse of children by priests, all of which impinged on his own life.Both Philip and Faith and the churches to which they belong are forced to confront the need to change, to adapt to new circumstances, in order to survive.Terry Wright has written ten academic books exploring different aspects of literature and theology. This is his second novel, after The Browning Papers.

Jack Sabre has always been a good cop. He has every reason to be the nicest guy on the Denver police force. His wife is the love of his life, but when her charity work brings her into contact with dangerous men on the dark side of the city, she ends up murdered. Jack becomes a bitter man, no more mister nice guy, and with the department dragging its feet on the investigation, he goes after the killer himself. The line between justice and revenge is thin and brittle, and when crossing that line backfires on Jack, bad guys come out of the woodwork, all bent on killing him before he discovers the reason for her murder. It's a journey from the depths of a whiskey bottle to the pinnacle of City Hall and a confrontation with an eyeball-plucking serial killer.

American and European scientists have been building bigger and faster particle accelerators to smash atoms into smaller pieces. They are looking for the Higgs boson, the particle that gives matter mass, The God Particle. What if they find it?Fermilab and CERN are the biggest players in this race for the Higgs boson, named after Peter Higgs who first proposed its existence in1964 as a way to explain why atoms have mass. Since then, tens of billions of dollars have been spent to prove the Higgs exists. The Russians tried and failed in a catastrophic way. However, in California, there's a smaller lab with an equally determined group of scientists in the hunt. Their motivations are as varied as the characters themselves. Whether it's love, money, power, fame, or revenge that drives them, they're about to set the world on a course of impending destruction.This is their story.

In the second book of The 13th Power Trilogy, Ray Crawford, having failed to achieve fame, has formulated a new plan: reprogram the Supercomputers, build a bigger gravity chamber, and degenerate NASA's prototype Inter Space Station Transporter into the 13th Power. He will discover that fame carries a terrible price. Since the undercover operation in Simi Valley failed, The Ark is under more pressure from the President to fulfill Directive 119, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and deploy at network of proton laser beams in orbit. He captures the fugitive murderer Dr. Curtis, aka Melvin Anderson, and offers him a deal he can't refuse. Just when Janis Mackey is settled into a peaceful life with Tracy in Boulder, the CIA calls on him to help them steal the 13th Power technology for Star Wars. Of course, he refuses, so acting on orders from The Ark, they take Tracy into custody and threaten to kill her if Janis doesn't deliver the goods. Janis's return to Simi Valley is not the joyous reunion Lisa expected. She's heartbroken over his devotion to Tracy, but she's determined to win him back. And Lisa has a new problem: her mother. Kate returns after her release from prison. She's looking for forgiveness from a daughter she'd abandoned and a husband she'd betrayed. Good luck with that. In this stunning sequel to The 13th Power Quest, humanity is at the mercy of technology, and a family's love for each other is put to a brutal test.

In this final installment of The 13th Power Trilogy, the peaceful Beltzans of the green planet, 100,000 light years from earth, encounter a Tarreeda spacecraft in orbit. The race of warmongers had been banished from their planet 1000 generations ago. However, Luthes Rez, helmsman of the Orbital Patrol Ship Questnar doubts it's the Tarreeda. The craft displays strange symbols that mean nothing to him: NASA - USA. Janis Mackey and Tracy have been invited to NASA for a meeting with General Brigham and the unveiling of the greatest attack force ever conceived. Brigham needs Janis's mathematical prowess to return to the 13th Power, conquer the aliens, and steal their technology. However, Janis wants nothing to do with an intergalactic war, so Brigham arrests Tracy. If Janis fails, she'll be put to death for treason.Ray Crawford, now an alcoholic recluse, refuses to take calls from NASA until news of alien prisoners of war brought back to earth drags him out of the bottle.Lisa has finally found her man. He's a quiet soul, peaceful, and a hero in his own right, but Luthes Rez is a prisoner of war, and her father will never approve.Meanwhile, in Ethiopia, archeologist Milton Spears discovers an alien truth buried on Choke Mountain for 20,000 years, a truth the government's secret Aquarius Project wants protected at any cost.This is a story of mankind's treachery, the horrors of galactic war, and the only hope for peace on earth.

Love is sorrow. Love is death. In 2235, Scott Dunn is immortal, thanks to a scientific breakthrough, once all the rage but now banned. Everyone he's ever loved is dead: his wife, his children, his grandchildren; they all got old and died while he remains, immune to disease and old age. Fighting perpetual grief, he swears he'll never get close to anyone else ever again, but a call for help sends him to Boulder, Colorado, where he teams up with a mortal woman and her pet ferret to rescue a woman from cryonic freeze and thwart a plot to assassinate a Councilman. Scott's journey will bring him face-to-face with his ultimate fear: losing someone he loves...again.

Speculation has it, in scientific circles and the press, that in some secret lab somewhere, a human has already been cloned. Truth is there are two clones, one of William Tuliver, a corporate tycoon, rich beyond measure, and the other, the soon-to-be-executed Morris Brennon, a notorious mass murderer. Blythe Biotech scientists have developed a special restriction enzyme that not only clones cells, it duplicates humans, and they use it to clone these two uniquely different men before their deaths. But one surrogate mother risks her life to rescue her baby from Blythe, a journey into motherhood no woman should ever have to endure. As for Morris Brennon's clone? He lives the life of a lab rat, and when he escapes, hell hath no fury like his rampage of revenge.

Texas Ranger JUSTIN GRAVES is a tenacious homicide detective and an outspoken advocate of victims' rights. Respected by his peers and feared by criminals, they simply call him "Justice." When he and his rebellious daughter are gunned down by her gangster boyfriend, Justin makes a deal with the devil to save her soul: one hundred bad guys for her pardon from hell. Now, as he walks the line between the living and the dead, investigative tools are useless; science is moot. In his rotting body, he rises from the grave to collect the souls of killers who got away with murder. If only a deal with the devil were that simple.