Guy Blythman

A team of eminent British scientists are closeted on Belleisle, off the remote Cornish coast, working on the Theory Of Everything - the quest to identify the mysterious factor that links together the fundamental forces governing the universe and effectively explains how it works. But although the isolated location may have the effect of concentrating the mind, the Grand Theory is proving elusive and their research is leading nowhere, causing tensions torise. Then one of them is murdered. Is the killer a religious fundamentalist, afraid of the implications of the project for faith? Does the crime have its origins in the jealousies and rivalries of academe? Or was the motive something different from either of those? One thing is clear, as DI Alec Monro, head of a special Scotland Yard unit which investigates high-profile crimes, soon discovers. Further lurid incidents suggest someone is prepared to stop at nothing to ensure the truth is never revealed...

As an Asperger Syndrome "sufferer", life for Guy Blythman has not been easy, if anything because his condition leaves his rational faculties, and his ability to empathise, intact; but it has certainly been interesting. Here he tells his story, the funny moments as well as the sad, the sublime as well as the ridiculous. Though many of his experiences have been the same as others' it serves as a commentary on how a society supposedly concerned with equality and diversity actually treats those who are different. But if you want light(?) relief there are the difficulties with girls, the kinky cats, the recalci- trant gas fitters, et al...

However you feel about it the doctrine of political correctness, designed to combat discrimination against certain "identity groups", has become one of the key ideologies that govern the world of the twenty-first century. As such it merits close, and even-handed, analysis. Is it as harmful as its critics insist, or as benign as its proponents would have us believe?This book asks what it is; how it came to be so prevalent; whether it is the quirk of a minority or an imperative which all of us should subscribe to. What does the future hold for it, and therefore for us? Will there be, or is there already taking place, a reaction against it, and will that backlash succeed? What are the implications for society if it does? Is it a myth in the first place? Most importantly, is it guilty of its own misconceptions and prejudices? The conclusion is that it is, while not being entirely harmful, and that trouble may result if it is not reformed.Guy Blythman is the author of Philosophy: A View From The Edge and The Bigger Picture: Essays In History and Politics.

The end of the world and the Second Coming of Christ, followed by the Last Judgement, are not a popular subject, particularly among those who have little time for religion anyway. Like Christianity itself, mention of it often meets with ridicule, at best apathy. Religious enthusiasts (or some of them) have, after all, been declaring the End to be imminent for the past two thousand years.But the issues, the dilemmas, which the world currently faces are of a particularly intractable nature. Do they signify that the human race is nearing the end of its viability as a species, within the Earthly context, in the culmination of an inevitable historical process; and that it is time to be open-minded about the claims of the Bible, about things we may have previously dismissed as irrelevant, quirky or offensive?In Rediscovering God Guy Blythman set out to show that religious belief was neither incompatible with science nor in some way morally wrong. Now he is exploring the ultimate consequences of that, in a book which may not be comfortable reading yet whose arguments, he believes, cannot be dismissed out of hand. Meet the challenge it presents, if you dare. Guy Blythman is the author of Rediscovering God and Philosophy: A View From The Edge.

Ace oil troubleshooter Caroline Kent has had some difficult assignments in her time. But the problems faced by International Petroleum Ltd in the developing West African state of Kambata seem especially intractable. There, Caroline finds herself caught between militants whose activities threaten to disrupt the oil production, and thus to some extent damage the nation's prosperity, and a corrupt and inefficient - yet brutal - government which doesn't seem to want to take them on. To make matters worse, there are allegations that IPL itself has been guilty of dodgy practices. If she wishes to present the acceptable face of capitalism she must find out whether they are true, and take the necessary action.While behind the scenes a murky political conspiracy is unfolding, which threatens to ensnare Caroline in its web...as well as backfire disastrously on the plotters...

Glen Hunter is a cryptozoologist. Which means he searches for animals that are not officially recognised by science, or as extinct as the world had come to believe. Lake monsters, Abominable Snowmen, living dinosaurs. Sometimes he finds what he’s looking for - and the truth may be even more incredible than he could ever have expected - sometimes he doesn’t. Whatever happens, intrigue and peril are never far away. The creatures themselves might be dangerous or they might not. But inextricably mixed up with the business are the aspirations, secrets, and fears of human beings; leading Hunter, his friend and assistant Sophie Needham, plus adventuress and ex-MI6 agent Caroline Kent, into dark situations which threaten their lives…

Is a selection of writings by indie author Guy Blythman, many of them originally submitted to the writers’ workshop Walton Wordsmiths. Here you will find the funny, the macabre, the bawdy, the thought-provoking, the disturbing and the uplifting all within the pages of one book. Science fiction, the supernatural and political satire get a look-in and there are analyses of such serious subjects as the sexiness of swimwear and whether blondes are as dumb/awful

When the opportunity arises for a weekend break in a pleasantly secluded part of the Cornish coast, Caroline Kent gladly takes it. Little does she know that it will lead to a terrifying adventure with supernatural forces, weapons of mass destruction and an apocalyptic plan to reverse over a thousand years of history; all centred on a grim old house on a cliff overlooking the sea, inhabited by a strange family with a very dark secret.

Since the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, and Darwin, Christian belief in the West has progressively declined. Are we to take the fact that it is atheist, or agnostic, scientists who in many ways have made the modern world as proof that Christianity (or any other kind of religion) is discredited, indeed always was nothing more than a superstitious delusion?Yet there are other parts of the world where Christianity is thriving. And even in the West itself there are still people, by no means stupid or deluded, who have not abandoned a faith whose strengthening power is proof to them of its truth. In this book Guy Blythman a believer, but one who knows that strongly held convictions should be subject to rational enquiry shows that it is not a sign of mental illness, that it is not incompatible with reason and science and may even be justified by them, and that it is as relevant today as it ever was.

1945: in his castle high up in the Alps a Swiss count meets with representatives of an organisation helping Nazi war criminals escape to South America. Many years later, in another century, a woman is gruesomely murdered at her lonely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor. The two events cannot possibly be connected - or can they?Then there's Interpol carrying out an investigation into certain irregularities within the European Union; while a series of security leaks results in a wave of terrorist atrocities across the continent. Once again, it falls to oil troubleshooter and former MI6 agent Caroline Kent to find out what's going on, and expose another top-level conspiracy; this time designed to protect those who do not care about the horrific consequences of interfering with the molecular structure of matter.

Within a mountain at Thule in Greenland lies World War Two's last and most incredible secret: the remains of a lost civilisation with powers far in advance of any on earth today. Over sixty years after a Nazi expedition first stumbled on it, a sinister right-wing political organisation plans to use the legacy of this "master race" to achieve global domination.And now others, no less ruthless and dangerous in their own way than the Nazis, are coveting the technology. The stage is set for Ragnarok the Twilight of the Gods, and the end of the world as we know it unless Caroline Kent, struggling to control powers no ordinary human ought to possess, and her friends can somehow avert disaster.

1943: a Nazi expedition searching for evidence of a lost Aryan supercivilisation finds something astonishing within a mountain at Thule in Greenland. In the maelstrom of war the secret of what lies there is lost; for the moment.The twenty-first century: a young Jew dies in suspicious circumstances in Berlin. The police investigation leads to a far-Right political organisation which it seems is planning something big - something which involves Thule.Someone has discovered the incredible truth about the place and seeks to turn it into a force which will bring the world to its knees and establish the Fourth Reich. The key to it all is Caroline Kent, harassed executive and former MI6 agent, and the strange powers she seems to be developing; powers which in the wrong hands could bring disaster to Mankind.

Investigating the deliberate sinking of a number of oil tankers, Caroline Kent traces the trouble to a mysterious international company and its Chairman, Sir Edward Greatorex, but finds herself a prisoner in an underwater colony off the Bahamas, operated on to become one of a new species of aquatic human which Greatorex believes represents Mankind's future. His motives are altruistic, but nonetheless misguided and wrong; the subjects in his experiments don't have any say in the matter.While Caroline plots escape, her friends in the Security Services probe into Greatorex's activities. But as the net tightens around him, he resorts to increasingly desperate and dangerous means to protect his secret...

The loss of a series of oil tankers, apparently by sabotage, threatens to plunge the world into recession; young people are mysteriously disappearing in the vicinity of Miami, Florida; and in Pakistan a radical Islamist faction is plotting a coup d'etat.The tanker sinkings lead Caroline Kent, troubleshooter for International Petroleum Limited, to investigate a mysterious marine technology consortium and its chairman, Sir Edward Greatorex; gradually she uncovers a murky international conspiracy, in the process raising vital issues concerning the future of the human race and its relationship with the natural world.

What if Saddam Hussein HAD had weapons of mass destruction ...but of a kind no-one could ever have guessed at...In 1997, an Iraqi farmer ploughs up a mysterious object made from a substance previously unknown to science. Five years later, US spy satellites detect a huge, unidentified installation in course of construction over the spot where it was found. It looks like Saddam is up to something; but what?International concern mounts until finally an SAS unit under Major Mike Hartman is sent into Iraq to find out just what is going on at Quarat and stop it. But nothing in their training could have prepared Hartman and his squad for what is lurking within the complex. If incalculable disaster is to be avoided they must face a deadly alliance between a ruthless, power-crazed military dictatorship and a supernatural force which could devastate the entire planet.

When British oil executive Caroline Kent manages to get on the wrong side of the local Mafia boss while on a business trip to the US, she little suspects what it will lead to. For Salvatore Scarlione isn't a man to let bygones be bygones. And the Mafia have acquired a powerful new weapon, one that will enable them to hunt down and kill anyone they choose, anytime, anywhere. Which means it's not only Caroline's life that's at stake. Somehow she and her friends must fight back, saving not only her but the entire globe from the clutches of the sinister Syndicate.Featuring the heroine of Guy Blythman's other novels, Eye Of The Sun God and Piper One, The Argus Memorandum is a partly counter-factual thriller set at a pivotal moment in world history.