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The far north coast of Scotland. Spring 1745. It begins with a murder. But is it a murder when someone is forced to kill his brother, so that he might save his own life? The guilty man is a nobody, a poor fisherman. The person who arrogantly and unthinkingly makes him commit this terrible act, simply to see how he behaved, is the richest man in Scotland, one of Europe s leading astronomers, a great aristocrat and clan chief the Earl of Dunbeath. How this opening scene unfolds leads Dunbeath to invent his game of life the Prisoner s Dilemma. He invites his old friend, David Hume, to Caithness to play the new game with him to prove to you mathematically and empirically the interaction of good and ill, of co-operation and selfishness. But into their planned discussions blow two survivors from a shipwreck who will turn their thoughts and their lives upside down - the beautiful and brilliant Sophie Kant and the calm, charismatic captain, Alexis Zweig. What follows, as the greatest...

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Author

O'Connor, Sean Stuart

Publisher

John Hunt Publishing

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781780997414

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Thriller, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.75 / 5 (10 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14