Fifty-First State - Hardcover

Bailey, Hilary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0727866931 ISBN 13: 9780727866936

Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

Fifty-First State It is the year 2013. Britain is in a severe recession and poverty is causing mayhem. There has been a sequence of short-lived hung parliaments and, due to terrorist bombs. And the friendly partnership between the US and UK is over - destroyed by mistrust. Full description

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"She is mistress of the melodrama" Mail on Sunday "Icy, atmospheric and riveting" Observer on Frankenstein's Bride "Bailey displays a competent understanding of Shelley's original tale in this inventive narrative" Kirkus Reviews on Frankenstein's Bride"

Synopsis:

It is the year 2013. Britain is in a severe recession and poverty is causing mayhem. There has been a sequence of short-lived hung parliaments and, due to terrorist bombs, repressive measures have been brought in by the power-hungry Government which fall especially hard on British Muslims. Global security is also at risk when an election in Iraq brings in a fundamentalist government and it threatens to nationalize its oil. And the friendly partnership between the US and UK is over - destroyed by mistrust.After a new election is called, Lord Gott, Treasurer of the Conservative Party, receives large sums of money from supposedly legitimate sources. This helps secure a majority for his party and Alan Petherbridge becomes Prime Minister. But that someone took payments as a bribe to secure victory, and that someone might have won the most powerful position in Britain. Gott steps in to investigate despite a scandalous personal secret that might get in the way...

About this edition

• Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0727866931
• ISBN 13: 9780727866936
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256