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Previous incarnations: university lecturer, tax and business journal editor, media/public affairs consultant, etc.

Currently: freelance book translator/editor: Sport (Niki Lauda; Alain Prost; Muhammad Ali), cinema (Clint Eastwood; Harrison Ford); art history (Raphael; De Chirico; Canaletto), lifestyle themes; food and drink; EU issues; charities, foundations and NGOs.

Published fiction:
- BERING: A Novel (Birlinn/Polygon, Edinburgh, 2004)
- CONDOTTIERE (Birlinn/Polygon, Edinburgh, 2007)
- A KNIGHT'S TALE (Pegasus, New York, 2008)
- CHOUAN: For God and King (Amazon 2011)
- OCCAM'S RAZOR (Amazon January 2012)
- THE SALLEE ROVERS (Amazon May 2012)

Interests: Any sport other than cricket; cinema; architecture and art history; jazz ancient and modern; food and drink; biography/autobiography; historical fiction

Current abode: The Costa Tropical in Andalucia, where sunshine is nigh-on constant but broadband reception at best intermittent.

favourite books

Re-reads: Lewis Grassic Gibbon; Anthony Burgess; Saul Bellow; John Irving; John Le Carré; Michael Crichton; James Ellroy; etc., etc.

Recent reads: Stieg Larsson: Millennium Trilogy; Antony Beevor: D-Day; Bernard Cornwell: Azincourt; Ian Rankin: Doors Open; John Le Carré: A Most Wanted Man; Simon Schama: Rough Crossings; Neil Oliver: A History of Scotland; Max Hastings: World War II.

Back burner stuff: Eliot; Pound; Yeats; Joyce; Dos Passos; James; Faulkner; Durrell; Mann (Heinrich not Thomas), Musil; Kraus; Tucholsky; Flaubert; Stendhal; Maupassant; et al.

SWAP PHILOSOPHY

BORED ****less by Dan Brown, John Grisham, Tom Clancy and their surrogates.

DETESTS California-centric End-of- the-World-as-we-know-it/Call-for-Bruce-Willis nonsense

ENJOYS exceptional sci-fi (Clarke, Bradbury) but not remotely interested in LOTR, H-Potterisms, Dungeons-and-Dragons or Lion-and-Wardrobe-type fantasies.

ADORES chicks but is turned off by rom-com and chick-lit.

And DEPLORES fiction which purports to be 'historical' and/or 'literary' but is in reality neither.

Just as well to be up-front about it .....

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OCCAM'S RAZOR

 

OCCAM'S RAZOR
Edward John Crockett
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OCCAM'S RAZOR

Edward John Crockett

A CHILLING AND DEEPLY DISTURBING PROBE INTO THE DARKER RECESSES OF POST-9/11 AMERICA ...


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"... Oliver Prescott Markham had been proud - some said unduly so - of his dense thatch of unfashionably long silver hair. There was little of it left. Markham's skull had disintegrated. Slivers of bone were scattered over an area several yards in diameter. Blood oozed, darkened and congealed in the autumn sun ..... "

PLOT
The assassination of prominent U.S. political guru and presidential adviser Oliver Prescott Markham triggers worldwide speculation as to potential perpetrators and motives. A team of maverick professionals retained by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to help investigate Markham's death draws a blank until they start to suspect that things may be infinitely less complicated than they at first appear ...

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Celebrated fourteenth-century philosopher theologian William of Ockham held that the simpler or simplest of two or more conflicting theories - namely the one requiring the fewest assumptions to be made - must always prevail and be preferred. He applied this principle so rigorously and with such fervor that it came to be known as ‘Occam's Razor’ …..

So, as William of Ockham insisted: LET'S KEEP IT SIMPLE!

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Today and tomorrow are the last days Stormbringer will be available f....

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Hello Eddie, thank you very much for backing "The Merry Congress"! I....

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Thankyou Eddie for backing a Buccaneer , with best wioshes from Strac....

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I wrote 38 days ago

Delighted someone finally got around to reading this one ... Thank you for your comments. Best Eddie Crockett (OCCAM'S RAZOR) view book

I wrote 72 days ago

Ann: I am more than happy to back POLLY although - like several others before me - I have certain reservations about the Eliza Doolittle pastiche of the early chapters: I would urge you to tone down the Mockney., particularly because some of it is rather clumsy - not to say unconvincing***. Your ... view book

I wrote 76 days ago

Dear EH: Thank you for the encouraging comments. OCCAM'S RAZOR was intended as a writing 'exercise': to see whether I could put together a political 'thriller' and to establish how long it might take me. I was intrigued to discover that it took me less than eight weeks to research, write and rev... view book

I wrote 101 days ago

John: I'd hate you to think this smacks of quid pro quo. Anything but ... WACKJOB is seriously good and has been an undiluted pleasure to read thus far. Never mind the ratings and rankings, just be patient until some perceptive literary agent sifts through the customary pile of dross and drivel... view book

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