Overload - Softcover

Arthur Hailey

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798129108059

Publisher: Rupa & Co, 2005

Synopsis

In the middle of a sweltering July heat wave that has no end in sight, California’s Golden State Power and Light is on overload. An emergency brownout is already in effect. Then, GSP&L’s newest and largest generator explodes. With four people dead and a widespread loss of power, a fringe group takes responsibility. But for GSP&L vice president Nim Goldman and his family; his adversary, investigative reporter Nancy Molineaux; detective Harry London; and beautiful quadriplegic Karen Sloan, whose every breath depends on electric power, the terror is just beginning . . .

A dramatic and timely story of the people and the events leading to a crisis, Overload presents a fascinating view of the little-known world of electric power production that is vital to contemporary life.

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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.

Edition details

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