The Prisoner's Dilemma

✍ Scribed by O'Connor, Sean Stuart

• Book ID: 107767377
• Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 239 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

The far north coast of Scotland. Spring 1745. It 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? The 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. How 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. But 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. What follows, as the greatest...