The Traffic Light Syndrome

ISBN-13: 9781533508348 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 452 str.

Roger Parkes

Opis

A COLD WAR THRILLER. A clever plot by the Soviets to disrupt the trade unions and infiltrate the civil service with the aim of influencing government policies. They plan to install a high ranking communist into position within the Foreign Office that will allow them access to government strategy and policy making. Polly Spencer, newly arrived as a civil servant stumbles on this plot and informs her ward Daniel Bottomley. He had been approached by a concerned trade unionist about the continuing unrest in the docks and the attempts by communist agitators to call a national strike and was concerned by this latest information. Concerned about the violence and intimidation tactics being used by the communist agitators in the docklands, Daniel Bottomley, who is with MI6, decides that it needs to be investigated. It is 1952, rationing is still very much in place and there are still many shortages of essential food items, fuel is scarce as are many goods to buy in the shops.The uncertainties and fears about the future are being exploited by the communists who are expert at manipulating the fears and uncertainty that prevail among the population. They use threats and intimidation to secure positions in the union movement and so spread their communist propaganda, but the efforts of their agents in the Civil Service is discovered by Polly, quite by chance when going about her everyday business. Together with Daniel, she uncovers a deep conspiracy to take over government and so begins a race against time to stop the Soviets before they secure a key position in the Civil Service. Although Polly is only eighteen years old, her position in the Home Office gives her the opportunity to secure information against a Soviet controlled organisation. The Red Hand which has been operating from inside the Home Office for some time. As she finds out more from a Red Hand member who is anxious to help, she becomes the target of several brutal assaults, abductions and attempts on her life. The Soviets seem determined to stop her from meddling in their activities and only heroic efforts by Daniel save her. He is shot on more than one occasion and himself subjected to brutal assaults. But they both refuse to give up the fight to bring those responsible to justice and so stop the Soviet menace from achieving its aims and ambitions to take over our way of life in Britain. But can the love that they form for each other and their devotion to their duty prevail as the tension and suspense is raised to fever pitch with the desperate attempts by the Soviets to silence Polly forever? Will they finally rid themselves of her by disposing of her body at sea after subjecting her to a terrifying brutal sexual assault by a group of seamen on a Russian freighter in the docks? Can Daniel find out where they have taken Polly, who by now has become his wife, before it is all too late? Can the Red Hand members who are in custody offer any clues as to where the Soviets are holding her and will they want to help anyway? And will Daniel and Polly finally be able to secure enough evidence against the Soviets to bring them to justice? The Traffic Light Syndrome is part of an action packed cold war trilogy from the author, with the third novel, The Octopus Virus, now also available on Amazon and Amazon Kindle. The books give graphic accounts of the tactics used to intimidate the two main subjects, Daniel and Polly and so prevent them from securing justice. Both novels set in the Cold war era, have authentic story lines which mirror the events of that dangerous period in our history. A fourth novel, using the two main characters yet again, has been commissioned and will be published towards the end of 2017.