Fifty-First State - Hardcover

A political thriller from a popular author - 2013. Britain is in chaos. Following a severe recession and a succession of short-lived hung parliaments, an election is called. Lord Gott, Treasurer of the Conservative Party, receives large sums of money from supposedly legitimate sources, which helps secure a majority. But someone took payments as a bribe to secure victory, and that someone might have won the most powerful position in Britain. Gott steps in to investigate . . .

A native of England, Hilary Bailey was educated in thirteen schools before attending Cambridge. Married with children, she entered the world of 1960s science fiction, writing some twenty tales that were published in Britain, the USA, France and Germany. Her first novel was published in 1975 and she has since authored ten more.