Overload - Softcover

Arthur Hailey

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798129108059

Publisher: Rupa & Co, 2005

Synopsis

Overload introduces the high-tech, high-tension environment of the power industry. Nim Goldman is the vice president of Golden State Power and Light, a giant corporation that supplies electricity to the power-hungry state of California. Nim is a big man with a big job and all the women he can handle, but he knows the crunch is coming. Soon, very soon, power famine will strike the most advanced society the world has ever known.

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About the Author

Arthur Hailey was born in 1920 at Luton, where he attended school, then worked as an office boy and clerk. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he joined Force and rose through the ranks to become a pilot and Flight Lieutenant. In 1974 he emigrated to Canada successively a real-estate salesman, business-magazine editor and a sales and advertising executive. He became a full-time author in 1956 following the overnight success of his television play 'Flight into Danger' which was performed worldwide, later becoming a novel and a film. In his long career as a novelist he wrote eleven novels which have been published in twenty-seven languages. Arthur Hailey died on November 24, 2004.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rupa & Co
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 13: 9798129108059
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 540