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.