by Arthur Hailey · Ullstein Tb · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783548203010
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«Hochspannung» is the suspense novel by Arthur Hailey, published by Ullstein Tb in paperback (539 pages, in German).
In the middle of a heatwave in California, the company Golden State Power & Light operates at its limit when an explosion destroys its main generator. Amid sabotage, environmentalist criticism and political maneuvers, Arthur Hailey portrays the internal and personal conflicts of those who must guarantee the state's electricity supply.
The German translation is by Annemarie Arnold-Kubina and the English original is titled «Overload». It was published in 1983 as number 20301 of the Ullstein-Buch collection.
For readers of Arthur Hailey and of thrillers with an economic and political backdrop about the workings and dilemmas of large energy corporations.
Arthur Frederick Hailey, AE was a British-Canadian novelist whose plot-driven storylines were set against the backdrops of various industries. His books, which include such best sellers as Hotel (1965), Airport (1968), Wheels (1971), The Moneychangers (1975), and Overload (1979), have sold 170 million copies in 38 languages.
