{"product_id":"the-prisoners-dilemma-sean-stuart-oconnor-9781780997414","title":"The Prisoner's Dilemma","description":"The far north coast of Scotland. Spring 1745.\u003cbr\u003eIt begins with a murder. But is it a murder when someone is forced to kill his brother, so that he might save his own life? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe guilty man is a nobody, a poor fisherman. The person who arrogantly and unthinkingly makes him commit this terrible act, simply to see how he behaved, is the richest man in Scotland, one of Europe's leading astronomers, a great aristocrat and clan chief - the Earl of Dunbeath. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow this opening scene unfolds leads Dunbeath to invent his 'game of life' - the Prisoner's Dilemma. He invites his old friend, David Hume, to Caithness to play the new game with him to '...prove to you mathematically and empirically the interaction of good and ill, of co-operation and selfishness.' \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut into their planned discussions blow two survivors from a shipwreck who will turn their thoughts and their lives upside down - the beautiful and brilliant Sophie Kant and the calm, charismatic captain, Alexis Zweig. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat follows, as the greatest political, scientific and philosophical questions of the age sluice wildly through their tiny speck on the map, is a claustrophobic and fast moving game of cat and mouse as the characters drive relentlessly towards their destinies in life and death, love and betrayal and the passion they each have to achieve their different ambitions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the pace of the narrative quickens the scene is set for the final astonishing and unexpected outcome. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnder the game playing, the deceits and feints, the science and the philosophy, is a simple tale of three utterly determined and ruthless men struggling to the death to succeed in the race for an extraordinary woman. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhich of them will win? How? And why? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCover photograph by Stephen Cochrane. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Come and play my game of life with me! I call it The Prisoner's Dilemma.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sean Stuart O'Connor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1780997418\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781780997414\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Zer0 Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/16\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 377\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.50w x 1.10d","brand":"Sean Stuart O'Connor","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48659509084415,"sku":"9781780997414","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-prisoners-dilemma-sean-stuart-oconnor-9781780997414","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}