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Category:
Action/Thriller
Publisher: Self
ISBN-10: 1979514488
Type: Fiction
Pages: 292
Copyright: 2017
ISBN-13: 978197514484
Price: $2.99 (eBook)
Political monuments like Parliament may seem as solid as the ground they are built on, but this is an illusion. What happens when something we take for granted crumbles? Who will be able to take charge? Maybe the Night Watchman.
A 747 leaves San Francisco on a routine flight, as does an Airbus from somewhere in Africa. The result is a political nightmare in London, a scenario never envisaged and therefore not planned. Uncharted territory.
Excerpt
Captain McGregor felt he was somehow responsible for the Leaning Tower. This was nonsense, but his was perhaps the butterfly effect that triggered it off. Chaos theory suggests that the future is beyond predicting, because the flapping of a butterfly in the Caribbean may eventually lead to a typhoon in China. Tiny initial cause, massive final effect....
At the same time:
...Rather to his surprise, Damian White MP had come to enjoy his surgeries. Like many a budding politician he had started off with grandiose notions of changing the world. The Mother of Parliaments beckoned in all its glory. He would help make Britain a place fit for heroes. Etcetera.
He soon discovered that the Mother of Parliaments was a decrepit rabbit warren that would have been condemned as unfit for human habitation by most local councils. Worse still, the rabbits - members of parliament - that scurried around its corridors, were a fractious lot, agreement on any subject as rare as virgins in a brothel.
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