Power Failure (The Thriller Club)

In the 1980s 'Vee' Fletcher had worked as an under cover strike-buster for the Tory government. Using every dirty trick in the book, and some that were not, he thwarted strike after strike. But by the end of the decade, with the unions considered tamed, his services were no longer required. He took his golden handshake and faded into obscurity.In the late 90s the Socialists, under their dynamic new leader are back in power. Before long the unions scent a return to the good old days and square up to test the government's mettle. The confrontation will be spearheaded by a new amalgamation of the power and water workers under John Yeo, charismatic standard bearer of the hard left. Unreasonable demands are backed by selective power cuts - with fatal results.It is a measure of the Government's desperation that they summon Fletcher to rescue them from the threatened chaos of power, gas, and water cuts ion a nationwide basis. Fletcher's price is high and his methods, which include suborning Yeo's wayward daughter, are dubious to say the least, but results are guaranteed. Or would have been if Fletcher's aristocratic wife hadn't got involved, and if Yeo hadn't got lucky...Skulduggery gives way to open confrontation in a dual (sic) of Goliaths. Fletcher, the unscrupulous, scheming moneygrubber, versus Yeo, the amoral, power-mad demagogue, with the means and the will to bring the country to ruin.

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