Bill Paterson
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Laura Tracey is an ordinary, modern woman, a wife and mother working for a big merchant bank in London. When she exposes her employers, who are laundering enormous amounts of dirty money, she puts herself and her family in grave danger. They are forced to accept witness protection, and are catapulted into new identities and a new, alien environment. The authorities protect Laura but her integrity is vigorously questioned when the Bank's defence lawyers...
2) Hard times
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Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But soon finds herself...
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A naive young man, a railway enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942. He was put to work on the 'Railway of Death' - the Japanese line from Thailand to Burma. Exhaustively and brutally tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio, Lomax was emotionally ruined by his experiences. Almost 50 years after the war, however, his life was changed by the discovery that his interrogator, the Japanese...