Gordon Holmes – författare

East of the Hague Line is an adventurous, dramatic and quickly paced suspense novel written about life at sea commercial fishing in the Gulf of Maine and thefar reaching tempestuous North Atlantic.

Maines rugged Coastline is comprised of more than threethousand miles of bays, inlets, and peninsulas that createisolated close-knit fishing communities. The people who live inthese seaside towns have one thing in common, a deep-rootedbond with the ocean.

East of the Hague Line takes a close personal look at what ittakes to live the life of an offshore fisherman. Writer GordonHolmes, a Maine native, captures the rhythms and tensions oflife aboard a commercial fishing boat.

The crew of the fishing vessel Jubilee is comprised of four hardened fishermen,hopeful for good fishing, whose loved ones wait at home, fearful for the lives of their men.

Fishermen depend on a good catch to earn their living but whathappens when manipulation, deceit and betrayal by a trustedcrewmember changes the tide?

Young Tom Anderson fulfills a lifelong dream when he signs onwith Captain Joseph Scanton to go fishing aboard the Jubilee on the North Atlantic.He gets far more than he bargained for when his captain isforced to take his boat and crew into a perilous situation inuncharted waters east of the Hague Line. Scantons decisionputs their freedom and their lives at stake as they sail into atrap that will change their destiny forever.

This carefully crafted ebook: "A Mysterious Disappearance" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Claude Bruce is a barrister and an amateur detective who is caught unaware into the mysterious disappearance and the subsequent murder of Lady Dyke, his friend''s wife. Together with White, in an amateurish Sherlock Holmes'' fashion, Bruce must use his power of deduction to find the culprit. But unlike Sherlock, Bruce is fallible and makes some costly mistakes which results in a humorous but enjoyable murder mystery. The power of this novel lies in its expression and the layout of the puzzling case which has endeared this novel to the mystery lovers for generations!

The book is divided into two sections. The first half provides a historiography of the literature on state formation from antiquity to the present day. In the second, Gordon identifies a new theme using the methodologies of economic history, the history of economic thought, and the history of ideas. His interdisciplinary approach demonstrates that the process of state formation is best understood through the prism of science, economy, and culture. The narrative highlights significant events and institutions as markers of change in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern era. The core of the book focuses on England’s economic culture and its impact on state management. University elites in science and Aristotle’s philosophy educated literate and numerate professionals for the Royal court. They became indispensable for the ever-growing complexity of governing. England was unique because it embraced statistical thinking and quantitative reasoning at the heart of the English State.