Publisher's Synopsis
AN HISTORIAN WRITES, IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE NEXT CENTURY, OF THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC EVENTS WHICH LED THE WORLD TO DISASTER. MONETARY SYSTEMS HAVE COLLAPSED, FREE TRADE IS A MEMORY, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVASTATION IS APPARENT EVERYWHERE. DRUGS OFFER THE ONLY ESCAPE FROM DESPAIR. THE HISTORIAN NOTES THAT IT WAS IN THE LATE 1980S THAT THINGS STARTED TO GO BADLY WRONG. IN EUROPE, A NEO-HITLER FIGURE EMERGED, TO IMPOSE ON THE EEC HIS VISION OF A THIRD ECONOMIC AND MILITARY SUPERPOWER. IN THE UNITED STATES, A MAN OF REASON AND VIGOUR WAS DISPLACED BY A RIGHT-WING RELIGIOUS MEGALOMANIANC. IN THE FAR EAST, WESTERN CONSUMERISM CLASHED FATALLY WITH TRADITIONAL VERITIES, AND IN THE SOVIET UNION, SEVERAL DILEMMAS COLLIDE. THE RESULT WAS APOLOCALYPTIC: COMPLETE ECONOMIC BREAKDOWN AND THE DISAPPEARANCE OF DEMOCRACY. 30/11/87 & 7/12/87-OFFSET: A: 272PP: 20000 @ $3.50: UC=29.90: MAX
