Stephen Taylor

Once Upon A Thatcher Time (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The year is 1970. Off the Normandy coast a fisherman is killed on board his own small fishing boat. But this is no fishing accident; this is murder, a petty squabble between criminals, this is the grubby world of smuggling and drug running.
Twenty Two years later Nick Beverley inherits, on his 25th birthday, shares in a company founded by his uncle, the dead fisherman, and his murderous partner. But in that time the company has prospered, it is respectable, a multi-million pound trading organisation. It has taken advantage of the Thatcherite principles of greed, unrestricted free market economics, the elimination of bureaucratic economic planning. The murderer himself is at the heart of government; in an ironic twist he is now President of the Board of Trade.
Nick goes to work for the company, he assimilates all those Thatcherite principles; he is a willing convert. But this is now just post Thatcher Britain, the busted flush of those principles is becoming apparent, the cost to the country becoming clearer, the fact that the ordinary people were not sharing in the illusionary prosperity.
Then fate raises an eyebrow. The company mounts a hostile bid for a haulage company based in Normandy. In France Nick uncovers the company's murky past, bit by bit he puts the pieces together. The company he has dedicated his future to, is founded on criminality, drug money. He meets a remarkable French girl, the daughter of his late uncle's widow. Through her he starts to challenge everything that the company stands for - and he doesn't like the conclusions that he comes to.
A thriller, a story of high finance, a story of intrigue, and a story of love and redemption.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stephen Taylor
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781301441921
• Artikelnr.: 46936931

Autorenporträt

Stephen Taylor was once a happy and reasonably well-adjusted person; that was until an urge to write invaded his psyche, this need to be a writer, to tell tales. After many rejections his books are now successfully published by Sapere Books.

A Georgian trilogy was conceived. Three stories, set in London; a decadent time, a decadent place.
The first novel, A CANOPY OF STARS - A Georgian courtroom drama,
The second novel, THE SECRETS OF ELLOGHTON PARK - An historians discovery of two remarkable lives - people from the opposite ends of Georgian society.
The MYSTERY OF RUFFORD ABBEY. When historian Toby Wyatt receives a collection of chronicles written by Brother Roger of Hathern, a medieval monk at Rufford Abbey, he is plunged into a nine-hundred-year-old mystery.

Also to be published in November 2023:
The LOST GOSPELS. Two young men adventure in Egypt in 1830. looking for the earliest copies of the Gospels to prove that what we read today in the King James bible is factually correct. What they discover is not what they expected to find.

And see also a Children's Novel, THE KING OF BLOGNOGPOTIN.

Born in Yorkshire, brought up in Manchester; he is now retired and lives in rural Leicestershire.