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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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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...
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- PublisherSevern House Publishers Ltd
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0727866931
- ISBN 13 9780727866936
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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