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The Bailout
The credit crunch was just the start.
When the banks crashed again in 2012, the shockwaves led to countries and even continents failing. A mysterious, Far-East consortium's bailout of the UK leaves small town newspaper journalist Rob wondering at what cost.
Printing his own paper telling the truth, Rob is captured and taken along with four other dissidents to a labour camp. Escaping on the way they run, joining forces with other escapees. Eventually recaptured, they're taken to a labour camp and find out the consortium's real aims. Determined to make a difference, they engineer a stand against the consortium.
At 86,000 words, The Bailout is a dystopian thriller set in the very near future.
When the banks crashed again in 2012, the shockwaves led to countries and even continents failing. A mysterious, Far-East consortium's bailout of the UK leaves small town newspaper journalist Rob wondering at what cost.
Printing his own paper telling the truth, Rob is captured and taken along with four other dissidents to a labour camp. Escaping on the way they run, joining forces with other escapees. Eventually recaptured, they're taken to a labour camp and find out the consortium's real aims. Determined to make a difference, they engineer a stand against the consortium.
At 86,000 words, The Bailout is a dystopian thriller set in the very near future.
260 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 12, 2011
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March 19, 2016
This story takes a simultaneously humorous and sobering look at a British economy which crashes and is bailed out by a consortium of Eastern countries. Within a very short time, Britain becomes a police state, people work for food – canned ‘chicken’ stew from China – and dissenters are shipped to labour camps on the Isle of Wight. Our story follows a group of these people, who are forced to pedal exercise bikes to produce electricity, or work fields by hand to produce crops they can’t afford to eat.
The story is humorously told but the situation it portrays is bleak. We wouldn’t put up with it, would we? It made me wonder how far things would have to go, where the tipping point would be, before we found ourselves in this kind of mess. I enjoyed the characters, all quite believable, and their relationships with one another. I also liked the ending. Can a worm turn? Read this and find out!
The story is humorously told but the situation it portrays is bleak. We wouldn’t put up with it, would we? It made me wonder how far things would have to go, where the tipping point would be, before we found ourselves in this kind of mess. I enjoyed the characters, all quite believable, and their relationships with one another. I also liked the ending. Can a worm turn? Read this and find out!
February 16, 2016
Britain has gone through their second round of bank failures only to put their faith in a Far-East Consortium to bail them out. As the Consortium enacts laws that restricts freedoms and places Britain into a Police State riots and protests breakout. Rob, a reporter at a local newspaper, speaks out against the Consortium by publishing his own one page paper. This lands him and others like him in custody.
Wade’s post-credit crunch dystopian novel set in 2012, The Bailout, takes a look at the various reasons people are imprisoned and Rob’s adventure in and out of freedom. The tone is very depressing and hope is fleeting. Rob constantly believing that the next moment he will be shot is annoying. He and his fellow prisoners repeatedly underestimate the power of the Consortium.
By having each character tell their story as to what brought them to be arrested the reader gets a good idea of who they are and what they are capable of doing. The novel’s pace is steady with a few “gotcha” moments. It is well edited and I only spotted one typo. Overall, it was only O.K.
Wade’s post-credit crunch dystopian novel set in 2012, The Bailout, takes a look at the various reasons people are imprisoned and Rob’s adventure in and out of freedom. The tone is very depressing and hope is fleeting. Rob constantly believing that the next moment he will be shot is annoying. He and his fellow prisoners repeatedly underestimate the power of the Consortium.
By having each character tell their story as to what brought them to be arrested the reader gets a good idea of who they are and what they are capable of doing. The novel’s pace is steady with a few “gotcha” moments. It is well edited and I only spotted one typo. Overall, it was only O.K.
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