Overload: A Novel

Electric power. Imagine the lack of it, not for short periods but far longer ... Darkness! Deprivation! Chaos! This dramatic, timely novel is the story of people and events leading to such a crisis. Although fiction, it is uncannily real, superbly exciting. And it could happen ... may happen ... soon. The #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Hotel and Airport "hits with another blockbuster," a terrorist take-down of California's power grid (The Observer). 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. Provides inside glimpses of the little-known world of electric power production--which is increasingly vital to all. One incident after another at Golden State Power and Light Company leads to the ulitmate crises--a total black-out! Tale of Power and people, their lives, ambitions, loves, deceits, consciences, greed & terror. A heat wave has the electric power short of power. An electrical famine is alarmingly near. Could atomic power be the answer