Simon Conway est un ancien officier de l'armée britannique et un travailleur humanitaire international qui a consacré sa carrière au déminage et à la neutralisation d'engins non explosés dans les zones de conflit en Afrique, en Asie et au Moyen-Orient. Son plaidoyer a joué un rôle déterminant dans l'obtention d'une interdiction internationale des armes à sous-munitions. Il poursuit son travail d'impact dans le domaine humanitaire et réside à Glasgow.
This book presents a provocative perspective on evolution, questioning established theories and encouraging readers to reconsider commonly accepted ideas. It aims to engage a general audience with accessible language and thought-provoking arguments, inviting them to explore the complexities and controversies surrounding evolutionary science.
For all fans of great thrillers, of authors such as James Swallow, Frank Gardner, Terry Hayes, John le Carre, The Stranger sweeps us onward at white- knuckle pace, riding alongside a killer from our deepest nightmares and in Jude Lyon, an MI6 agent who is both ruthless and vulnerable - a new hero for a new decade.
Jude Lyon of MI6 has narrowly foiled the traitor Fowle's plot to level London, but the public are demanding answers.Answers the government doesn't have. As the country reels, a new populist political figure carves a stratospheric trajectory - but is he all he seems? In Moscow the President is furious. The world now knows the destructive power of the programme his people had been developing, and as the Russians scramble to understand how it got into Fowle's hands, they start to worry that perhaps it could be used against them . . . But Jude Lyon has just one question on his mind: Guy Fowle is missing, with nothing left to lose, So what is he planning next? Seething with political machinations, burning with blood-thumping action, and featuring the best returning MI6 operative since James Bond The Survivor brings the espionage novel crashing into the modern day.
A thrilling third instalment in the Jude Lyon series.
A stunning, apocalyptic standalone sequel to The Stranger.The terrorist Guy Fowle has escaped from prison.Jude Lyon of MI-6 has been saved from a Syrian ambush by his lover - and enemy? - Julia Ermolaeva. A mysterious Russian has been murdered in London and his thumb cut off.The Chancellor of the Exchequer has made an unfortunate social connection at a party, which he hopes he can keep secret.And suddenly, the world is literally going up in flames.Jude needs to start putting together the pieces of this jigsaw and quickly, because someone is putting into play a terrifying Russian plan to disable and destroy the UK. Once it has begun, it is designed to be impossible to stop.Bad enough if that someone is the Russian government. Worse if it is the psychopathic genius Fowle, otherwise known as The Stranger.Packed with stunning action, political intrigue, authentic tradecraft, emotion, shocks and nail-biting suspense, The Saboteur takes the spy thriller to new heights.
Verläuft die Evolution ziellos? Ist der Homo sapiens in seiner heutigen Gestalt nur das Ergebnis eines dramatischen biologischen Zufalls? Nein, wir sind unvermeidlich! Die vielen Wege der Naturgeschichte haben nur ein Ziel: die menschliche Intelligenz. Jenseits des Zufalls ist die herausfordernde Antwort des Paläobiologen Simon Conway Morris auf die berühmte Behauptung von Stephen Jay Gould, dass die Evolution zufallsbestimmt sein. Temperamentvoll belegt Morris, dass die Entstehung von Leben unvermeidlich zu intelligenten Lebewesen führt: Wir sind eingeschrieben in die Gesetze des Universums. Das Leben filtert die optimalen Lösungen so heraus, dass auch die unterschiedlichsten biologischen Organisationen bei der jeweils gleichen Lösung zu einer besonderen Notwendigkeit gelangen.