Most Popular Books by Brian Thompson

British PI Patrick Ganley is hired to find the missing daughter of a businessman and the probe leads him to an affair with the client''s wife. A tale of sodomy, sex-for-hire and murder.

For six months after saving the world again, Jason Champion stopped threats with little problems. Until the night of a massive explosion where he encounters a shadowy bomber who passes on the chance to kill him. As if the slow moving spring semester at North High and balancing a hero''s life was not hard enough. Jason is the man of the house, his girlfriend breaks up with him, and he witnesses the enemy he helped brainwash experience flashes of past crimes. But Jason''s problems kick into high gear when the bomber resurfaces with actions that point to a deadlier endgame. Powerless and broken by a murder he cannot remember committing, Jason must reconsider his alliances and strategy in order to survive a new threat who is out for blood. The breathtaking final installment of the Reject High series follows seventeen-year-old Jason Champion as he makes the biggest decisions in his life, reevaluates his moral code and considers whether or not he will hang up his cape for good.

For "One," an illegal clone who generates distance-bending wormholes, time is good for measuring how much longer she can survive in her home, Sector 215, an impoverished remnant of North America ruined by multiple nuclear blasts. That is until a trip for water rations ends in the fatal shooting of her only friend. Face-to-face with imminent death, One accidentally generates a new timeline. Armed with the truth about who she was biologically engineered to become, One must master her transtemporal abilities and journey from the year 2084 to 2029. There, with the present ticking toward nuclear catastrophe, One has to secure a peaceful future by sacrificing her own wants and bloodying her hands...or so she thinks. The thrilling conclusion to the Reject High Legacy series, The Doomsday Clock: A Reject High Legacy Novel skips across realities where One struggles against the urge to do what is best for her versus what is right for the world.

"How to Be an Investigative Journalist" is an instructional book about how to be an investigative journalist. Once, investigative journalist Brian Thompson was just a regular person, but now he is an investigative journalist. How did he become so? Several details of his journey are no one''s business. But some are fit for public consumption, and they are included in this book.Additionally, readers will learn which skills they should cultivate if they themselves would like to become investigative journalists. Such skills include nurturing curiosity, cultivating sources, speaking in various accents, and contorting your body to fit into any size safe.After reading "How to Be an Investigative Journalist", there is no guarantee you will become one. Scholars debate the matter, but a widely held view is that investigative journalism skill is granted solely by the god God who lives in the city called Heaven. But whether or not this is true, there is no harm in reading this book.

Discover a reality beyond comprehension in The Observer, Book 1 in the Spirit Saga. Imagine waking in darkness with no memory, no sensation of pain, and no idea how you got there. As light breaks through the void, you find yourself a silent observer in a desperate hospital room scene, watching strangers frozen in time, yet feeling an undeniable connection to them. Who are you, and why are you trapped between worlds, a ghost in a room filled with motionless figures? Prepare for a journey of startling revelations as the truth of your existence shatters everything you thought you knew.

Seers foretell the birth of a legendary king whose ascendance will spell the end to the centuries-old enslavement of his race. Knowing this, a head-of-state plots a mass genocide. Its failure drives him to forge an uneasy alliance with a rival. Weaving suspense and political intrigue together in a spellbinding plot, "The Revelation Gate" addresses issues of doubt, star-crossed love, and the power of hope.

Crime novelist Bella Wallis''s long and half-acknowledged engagement to Westland is beginning to suffer as his own shadowy job, working for the government, continually takes him abroad.

Patrick Ganley, détective privé de son état, quitte le Yorkshire et la minuscule Tania Evans (sa logeuse, professeur de tango et plus car affinités) pour se rendre chez un riche bourgeois du sud de l''Angleterre dont la fille a disparu. Adolescente studieuse, Melissa n''avait jamais causé le moindre tracas, mais dans cette affaire les apparences sont trompeuses et les protagonistes très imprévisibles. Patrick Ganley est bien décidé à débusquer la vérité derrière le pesant silence familial, derrière l''égoïsme, l''inconscience et la perversité. Car au bout du chemin il y a aussi une grande détresse. Scénariste pour la radio et la télévision, Brian Thompson est l''une des voix les plus originales du roman noir anglais. Sa causticité envers les mœurs décadentes est tempérée par un formidable grain de folie et une rare faculté d''empathie.

This report examines the rational and modified rational methods using rainfall-runoff datasets developed from Texas watersheds for application to Texas Department of Transportation hydraulic design problems. A unified rational method for Texas (URAT) is proposed as an alternative to the conventional method in current use. URAT substitutes land-use specification, slope influence, and probability adjustments to runoff coefficients by a simple area-weighted coefficient based on functional impervious cover. URAT incorporates the effect of slope and probability adjustments in the specification of the watershed time of equivalence, a characteristic time that makes rational peak discharges and regression equation peak discharges equal at some specified recurrence interval. An extended application (example) is presented to illustrate how to use the URAT method for both peak discharge and hydrograph estimation. Several appendices document various approaches examined, and provide an extensive examination into the runoff coefficient.

The engineering of microbial cell factories capable of synthesizing industrially relevant chemical building blocks is an attractive alternative to conventional petrochemical-based production methods. This work focuses on the novel and enhanced biosynthesis of phenol, catechol, and muconic acid (MA). Although the complete biosynthesis from glucose has been previously demonstrated for all three compounds, established production routes suffer from notable inherent limitations. Here, multiple pathways to the same three products were engineered, each incorporating unique enzyme chemistries and/or stemming from different endogenous precursors. In the case of phenol, two novel pathways were constructed and comparatively evaluated, with titers reaching as high as 377 ± 14 mg/L at a glucose yield of 35.7 ± 0.8 mg/g. In the case of catechol, three novel pathways were engineered with titers reaching 100 ± 2 mg/L. Finally, in the case of MA, four novel pathways were engineered with maximal titers reaching 819 ± 44 mg/L at a glucose yield of 40.9 ± 2.2 mg/g. Furthermore, the unique flexibility with respect to engineering multiple pathways to the same product arises in part because these compounds are common intermediates in aromatic degradation pathways. Expanding on the novel pathway engineering efforts, a synthetic ''metabolic funnel'' was subsequently constructed for phenol and MA, wherein multiple pathways were expressed in parallel to maximize carbon flux toward the final product. Using this novel ''funneling'' strategy, maximal phenol and MA titers exceeding 0.5 and 3 g/L, respectively, were achieved, representing the highest achievable production metrics products reported to date.

The author''s first novel is set in wartime Cambridge and is about an air-crew of the American Eighth Air Force and the children of a private school.