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The Fourth Protectorate

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The Fourth Protectorate
Author: Nicola L. C. Talbot.
First edition paperback (pending). 🔗
ISBN 978-1-909440-09-8
Genre: fiction / crime / speculative fiction
Book home page: dickimaw-books.com/fiction/crime/the-fourth-protectorate

Summary

Alternative history set in 1980s/90s London.

Description

In an alternate 1984, the Brighton bomb kills the entire British Cabinet, triggering a spate of increasingly draconian laws that lead to a return of a Cromwell-style Protectorate. Amid mounting civil disturbances, Mark Barton’s sole ambition is to bring down London crime lord Raymond Brown (‘Mr Ray’) following the murder of Mark’s parents by Mr Ray’s protection racket. Mark’s actions unwittingly allow the newly emerging Protectorate to firmly establish itself as a police state, and he becomes a tool of the new propaganda department. Can he undo the damage done and restore democracy?

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