Bøger af Dan Chapman

Charlie Sawyer is shy and reserved, a talented criminal psychologist stuck in a dead-end recruitment job. Ally McFerren is his former flame, a headstrong, American journalist with bags of attitude and a nose for a dangerous story. When Ally's newspaper receives a tip-off about a serious government cover-up, she enlists Charlie's help to investigate, and his quiet existence is threatened. Together they discover much more than they bargained for as their search for the truth leads to a shocking and sinister discovery about Ally's forgotten childhood that neither of them could have foreseen. Looking for Lucy is a mix of fast-paced thriller and heart-warming romance. With wry humour, it explores the idea that our destinies may be found in the very paths we take to avoid them.

Maurice Hindle famously described Mary Shelley's first novel as "the most radical critique of the 'Enlightenment project' available in modern literature." This work builds on previous studies of Shelley's novel, by highlighting the instability of the male narratives which dominated her own time. A close reading of her novel, what might cautiously be termed a deconstruction, reveals how Shelley places John Locke's 'possessive' individual in a state of war with himself. It demonstrates how, through the emblem of Frankenstein's Creature, Shelley's text exposes the contradictions in modern thought regarding the fixity of stability of the human subject, and most crucially, the implications of gendering that subject.

April, 1814. As news of Lord Byron's death sweeps London, two young prostitutes are found murdered. The murderer, and his shocking motive, becomes a secret passed down from father to son, one which remains undisclosed for nearly 200 years. It is the truth of Dr. Peter Hudson, who witnessed modernity evaporate into uncertainty, a man who embodies the contemporary human condition like no other. The novella, The Postmodern Malady of Dr. Peter Hudson, is the title story in this collection of eight short stories that unite around themes of time, memory and identity. Each is an experiment in convention, characterisation, and genre that use the tropes of crime, murder, and the paranormal to explore the contradiction between abstract understanding, and lived reality. These are stories about the reconciliation of these ideas in the midst of the human obsession with immortality and frailty.

Welcome to the world of the Super User... In the near future, the world of covert intelligence has grown into an intangible web, dissonant in message, unbridled in complexity, ruthlessly self-interested. Only those in absolute authority, Super Users, have access to the entire picture. Super User Wiegand's position is under threat from rogue Super User, Simon Beck. A brilliant spy who had previously defected with trillions of dollars worth of state-of-the-art surveillance technology, Beck now possesses the ability to observe virtually every citizen through an intricate system of cleverly concealed, closed circuit cameras. The stage is set. The play begins. A handsome young spy. An innocent young woman. Anarchy. Terror. Trust. Who is Iamestratus?

With Poetic Justice, Chapman delivers another masterful collection of his own, unique poetry so righteously justified. With his keen observational eye and personal, poetic style Dan Chapman offers his own unique reflections on a variety of common subjects and experiences. Forever a romantic and always a poet at heart. Chapman reaches out to his readers with his next column of poetic assortments dealing with a variety of value-clarification and topical concerns. Of course, always at a forefront with Chapman's insight into human condition is his typical, humorous touch. We all love to laugh, he says.

The Great Depression and WWII were difficult and challenging years for so many. Mix that drama with the trauma of a horribly dysfunctional family, and you had the makings of utter disaster and failure. War Torn: Mending of a Family, however, tells the saga of one special family through the eyes and words of a disenfranchised member who struggled her entire youth to maintain her identity and relationship with her unforsaken family of siblings and survive the violent onslaught of an angry, contemptable and denying father. The story follows the footsteps and years of our main character while she challengingly deals with issues of exclusion and shame throughout her insecure, young life yet fights to retain her place and independence within the family scope and, ultimately, bring all her siblings back together where they belonged. The story is factual and historical by content and nature as it reviews lifestyles and challenges while living through the depression and war years and learning survival skills as a female welder of Rosie-the-Riveter (and Wendy-the-Welder) fame. The story, therefore, is a biographical travelogue as it describes and discusses a variety of conflicts and issues that arose in our young heroine's life. There are enough tears to go around, to-be-sure. Yet, there is also a plethora of historical fact and curious and humorous experiences as well as inspirational commentary and dialogue. War Torn: Mending of a Family, Depression Years saga, WWII Homefront story, Patricia Vera McCord, Rosie-the-Riveters, Wendy-the-Welders, welding.

Addiction takes a foothold and collects its next toll when the user begins defending use of the substance. The greater the shame, the more the blame," Chapman suggests to his readers. With "Illusionary Friend" Dan sends a precautionary message to all naïve, curious and foolishly potential addicts who believe that drugs-of-choice are safe enough to avoid addiction. His poetry makes us think about what we do and our choices.