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Iain Benjamin King is a British writer. King was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Birthday Honours, for services to governance in Libya, Afghanistan and Kosovo.〔 ("Queen's birthday honours list 2013: GCB, DBE and CBE" ) in ''The Guardian''. 15 June 2013. 〕〔("Birthday Honours lists 2013" ) at 〕 In Kosovo he held a senior political role in UNMIK, about which he co-authored a book in 2006.〔Oisín Tansey. (Review of ''Peace at Any Price: How the World Failed Kosovo'' by Iain King, Whit Mason ) in ''International Journal'', Vol. 62, No. 3, "What Kind of Security? Afghanistan and Beyond" (Summer, 2007), pp. 717-720.〕 King is best known for his 2008 book, ''How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time – Solving the Riddle of Right and Wrong'', which tries to amend utilitarianism to save it from its many criticisms. King’s work has been criticised because, like utilitarianism and quasi-realism, his system still tries to derive an ‘objective morality from subjective valuations’.〔Page 85-86 of ‘An Enlightened Philosophy: Can an Atheist Believe Anything?’ by Geoff Crocker, 2010, ISBN 978-1846944246〕 ''Secrets of the Last Nazi'' is King's 2015 debut novel.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.thebookseller.com/news/bookouture-snaps-nazi-conspiracy-thriller )〕 ''The Sun'' wrote: "A brilliant but unconventional academic races shadowy agents, a deranged killer and power-mad priests to expose a vast conspiracy."〔Tom Wright. Review in ''The Sun''. 16th July 2015, p. 54. Accessed 24th August 2015.〕 The book topped the Amazon charts in the UK.〔("Iain King" ) at Amazon.com website. Accessed 10 September 2015.〕 The book is based on extensive research of the Nazi era.〔 ==Bibliography== * * *King, Iain (2015). ''Secrets of the Last Nazi''. Bookouture. ISBN 1910751103 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Iain King」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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