Bøker av Ken Hughes

Between April and November of 1888, a shadow descended upon the streets of London's East End. Night workers - predominantly prostitutes - were targeted in a brutal series of murders. Of the dozen reported killings, six bore the chilling signature of a single murderer, who would later become infamously known as Jack the Ripper. This enigmatic killer left a macabre calling card: surgically excising organs from his victims. Despite numerous theories and alleged familial ties proposed over the decades, the true identity of Jack the Ripper remains elusive. Modern forensics and passionate amateur sleuths have pursued the mystery, but the waters are muddied with myths and hearsay. Can we ever claim to be related to someone whose identity is unknown? The Ripper's reign of terror may have been brief, yet its impact lingers on. Copycat killers have emerged over the years, attempting to emulate Jack's nefarious deeds, but none have matched the intrigue surrounding the original Ripper. Whether this phantom killer was a transient or a local, their identity - and whether they fled England or met their end within its borders - remains one of history's most compelling enigmas. Delve into this book and decide for yourself: after journeying through its pages, do you think you've come closer to uncovering the truth about Jack the Ripper?

You'll never see me.Nobody sees us, only what we use our magic to show them. My family named me Nick, but all our lives we were raised moving from one identity to another, learning the arts of deception, observation, and the secret of illusion magic.I didn't even see that my own sister had survived, when our family's one mistake got my parents killed.Now, years have passed-years I spent thinking I was alone. Now I find Valerie again, living a life even better-hidden than mine.A life that's only revealed when she's charged with murder. Now she needs her brother.The real killer is out there, and he has no idea how many secrets, tricks, and magical faces I can call up to drag him out of hiding.But... I've never imagined a threat like him, to our whole way of existence. Or that everything we know about our lives might have been deceiving us.And it's the things you don't see that get you.

The magic to save lives - it's what everyone would kill for.For Adrian Corbin, not every case begins with fighting pyromancers or crawling through catacombs of terror. Sometimes it's safeguarding one budding magician and his friends.One who holds the secret of healing.No magic could be more precious, for Adrian's mission to make up for the lives he's cost, or for the forces that begin to stir at the rumors of this new power.Protecting a healer means being ready for anything - even the petty grudges and lies that could send his charges running straight into the grasp of the flame-throwing Duvals.Or the crime bosses that have begun to notice his work.Or the woman who turned his life upside down.To save a healer… Adrian Corbin knows how many people could die.

"A new take on urban fantasy... an action-packed adventure that will have you on the edge of your seat." - bestselling author Nat RussoThe sky was never the limit.Enter a world of gangs, vigilantes, and magic that's powerful enough to kill.Mark has never been the survivor his friend Angie is, but when he rescues a mysterious belt from the flames, it's a decision that changes his life for good.As the two tap into the secret of gravity-controlling magic, they realize the reason Angie's family tried to destroy the belt. Flying comes at a cost, to their lives and their sanity.Fighting back against a street gang with a vendetta, Mark begins to sense that death waits around every turn. Soon he and Angie come face-to-face with the true danger: hidden masters of other magical forces. The keepers of power want the secret of flying, and they'll destroy anyone who gets in their way.The High Road is the first book in a trilogy of street-level urban fantasy adventures. If you like heart-pounding suspense, comic-book energy, and Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, then you'll love Ken Hughes's gritty, magical series.

Too late to let goBuried weapons of magic. A killer only they can stand against. Or does removing them unleash something worse?Colin and his family guarded and managed the town's historical house for years… until a thief with wall-shattering claws came tearing it apart in search of more power.Someone has to stop him. Colin hunts for the truth behind that history, and the key to wielding a strange, shapeshifting gauntlet-against an enemy that appears without warning to kill anyone in the way of his power.Someone has to stop him. But who is Colin saving from who?The sister whose disappearance still haunts him…The detective he's drawn to, and not only because she knows the case all too well…His old friends who have their own ties to the magic…Or the truth behind the whole town? Which one is the real threat, and who is the next target?Someone has to stop him. And Colin has to try - whatever the cost may be.Running the Gauntlet is the first book of an exciting new urban fantasy series. If you like thrilling action, back-alley mystery, and Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, this is the book to grab.

Theoretical physics is driven by the ideas of the mathematical physicist and the sometimes, subjective interpretations of the mathematics of Relativity Theory and Quantum Mechanics. Yet today, we are still faced with many paradoxes and conundrums in our attempts to understand the laws of nature.This visionary book stands back from the grindstone of mainstream physics and presents a down to earth, Engineer's view of Special and General Relativity, together with an insightful understanding of the physical nature of time that affects our view of the quantum world.The author adheres strictly to causality throughout his deductive reasoning and, with just a little mathematics, arrives at an intuitive concept of the Grand Unification, Einstein's unfinished, unified field theory. The field provides a common source of energy for all processes (including gravitation), all matter from the beginning of the universe itself.Ken Hughes demonstrates why we are living in a binary universe and his theory offers fascinating explanations for many present-day conundrums in physics.Updated with even more explanations, examples and supporting research, this second edition of The Binary Universe revisits the conclusion of the first edition, with more detail and additional information.Contents include: Causality of gravitation, Wavelike time, Quantum time, Binary time, Entanglement and the quantum world. The Binary Universe opens up a radical new approach to Space and the universe that surrounds us.

In his widely acclaimed Chasing Shadows ("e;the best account yet of Nixon's devious interference with Lyndon Johnson's 1968 Vietnam War negotiations"e;-- Washington Post), Ken Hughes revealed the roots of the covert activity that culminated in Watergate. In Fatal Politics, Hughes turns to the final years of the war and Nixon's reelection bid of 1972 to expose the president's darkest secret.While Nixon publicly promised to keep American troops in Vietnam only until the South Vietnamese could take their place, he privately agreed with his top military, diplomatic, and intelligence advisers that Saigon could never survive without American boots on the ground. Afraid that a preelection fall of Saigon would scuttle his chances for a second term, Nixon put his reelection above the lives of American soldiers. Postponing the inevitable, he kept America in the war into the fourth year of his presidency. At the same time, Nixon negotiated a "e;decent interval"e; deal with the Communists to put a face-saving year or two between his final withdrawal and Saigon's collapse. If they waited that long, Nixon secretly assured North Vietnam's chief sponsors in Moscow and Beijing, the North could conquer the South without any fear that the United States would intervene to save it. The humiliating defeat that haunts Americans to this day was built into Nixon's exit strategy. Worse, the myth that Nixon was winning the war before Congress "e;tied his hands"e; has led policy makers to adapt tactics from America's final years in Vietnam to the twenty-first-century conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, prolonging both wars without winning either.Forty years after the fall of Saigon, and drawing on more than a decade spent studying Nixon's secretly recorded Oval Office tapes--the most comprehensive, accurate, and illuminating record of any presidency in history, much of it never transcribed until now-- Fatal Politics tells a story of political manipulation and betrayal that will change how Americans remember Vietnam. Fatal Politics is also available as a special e-book that allows the reader to move seamlessly from the book to transcripts and audio files of these historic conversations.

The break-in at Watergate and the cover-up that followed brought about the resignation of Richard Nixon, creating a political shockwave that reverberates to this day. But as Ken Hughes reveals in his powerful new book, in all the thousands of hours of declassified White House tapes, the president orders a single break-in--and it is not at the Watergate complex. Hughes's examination of this earlier break-in, plans for which the White House ultimately scrapped, provides a shocking new perspective on a long history of illegal activity that prolonged the Vietnam War and was only partly exposed by the Watergate scandal.As a key player in the University of Virginia's Miller Center Presidential Recordings Program, Hughes has spent more than a decade developing and mining the largest extant collection of transcribed tapes from the Johnson and Nixon White Houses. Hughes's unparalleled investigation has allowed him to unearth a pattern of actions by Nixon going back long before 1972, to the final months of the Johnson administration. Hughes identified a clear narrative line that begins during the 1968 campaign, when Nixon, concerned about the impact on his presidential bid of the Paris peace talks with the Vietnamese, secretly undermined the negotiations through a Republican fundraiser named Anna Chennault. Three years after the election, in an atmosphere of paranoia brought on by the explosive appearance of the Pentagon Papers, Nixon feared that his treasonous--and politically damaging--manipulation of the Vietnam talks would be exposed. Hughes shows how this fear led to the creation of the Secret Investigations Unit, the "e;White House Plumbers,"e; and Nixon's initiation of illegal covert operations guided by the Oval Office. Hughes's unrivaled command of the White House tapes has allowed him to build an argument about Nixon that goes far beyond what we think we know about Watergate. Chasing Shadows is also available as a special e-book that links to the massive collection of White House tapes published by the Miller Center through Rotunda, the electronic imprint of the University of Virginia Press. This unique edition allows the reader to move seamlessly from the book to the recordings' expertly rendered transcripts and to listen to audio files of the remarkable--and occasionally shocking--conversations on which this dark chapter in American history would ultimately turn.