Bøger af Patrick Neal

The Collaboration 29 Tales of Suspense is an anthology of short stories from the mind of Patrick Neal. He takes you on 29 adventures into the realm of the macabre, each story hand illustrated. This book contains all three of The Collaboration Series; including the original 8 Tales of Suspense, Darkness of Heart, and Reflections. Sparked by life, these tales take true form from which the collaboration series was born.

Somewhere in the not so distant future, Eva and Joe Flannigan find themselves on the run to understand and aid their devastated and ever changing world, where the unexpected altering of the past proves to be consequential. They encounter armies of saurians, descendants of biologically modified super-soldiers, people affected by scourges and mutations, and a more dominant life form, Elementals; wielding the power of control over not only people and saurians, but the very element of nature itself. Follow their travel through time as they encounter strange primordial creatures and worlds, disturbing the very fabric of reality. Pursued by a woman of dark powers, her obsession of the infant Jacob ultimately decides their fates on shores of battle.

A sparse human population, in this well-detailed future post-apocalyptic novel, nervously co-exist with the saurian, the descendants of biologically modified super soldiers engineered during the unwinding of our world. It is against this strange backdrop that an unlikely hero, Joe Flannigan, rescues Eva from a cult commune, and invokes the rage roiling inside of its mystical and messianic leader. Follow Joe and Eva's journey, as the man possessed with a supernatural affliction pursues them, controlling all who would dare block his own will or the evil that controls him.

In a time when lawlessness ruled the land, a man is falsely convicted of a heinous crime. Deemed guilty by the town of Deadwood, he faces the ultimate punishment, death by hanging. On the run as an outlaw, he encounters an ancient vampiric race, amongst various incarnations of native myths and legends. This is a place in the old west where nightmarish dreams come to light and darkness prevails. Take caution as you enter the Desert of The Devil...

The third book of the trilogy in the Control Factor series begins where Eva and Joe left off, happening upon a resurrected ancient civilization of a people who left technology behind, choosing to live the old ways. They narrowly escape only to be plunged back into their world of crumbling cities, overrun by people thirsty for control and power. Forces collide as they struggle to maintain order over chaos, protecting the last of the saurians from those who will stop at nothing to eradicate them. Beyond time and death, an enemy of supernatural origin relentlessly attempts to take the control back, as they cling to the fringes of a forgotten humanity.

Should the state be neutral with regard to the moral practices of its citizens? Can a liberal state legitimately create a distinctively liberal character in its citizens? Can liberal ideals constitute a point of consensus in a diverse society? In Liberalism and Its Discontents, Patrick Neal answers these questions and discusses them in light of contemporary liberal theory. Approaching the topic of liberalism from a sympathetic and yet immanently critical point of view, Patrick Neal argues that the political liberalism of theorists like John Rawls and the perfectionist liberalism of theorists like Joseph Raz fail to fully express the generosity of spirit which is liberalism at its best. Instead, Neal finds resources for the expression of such a spirit in the much maligned tradition of Hobbesian, or vulgar, liberalism. He argues that a turn in this direction is necessary for the articulation of a liberalism more genuinely responsive to the diversity of modes of life in the twenty-first century.

In these essays the reigning models of liberal political theory of John Rawls and Joseph Raz are immanently criticized. Neal argues that neither 'political' nor 'perfectionist' liberalism adequately gives expression to the liberal spirit.