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The Westminster Disaster
Sir Fred Hoyle, f.r.s., well-known as astronomer, writer, broadcaster and television personality, was born in Bingley, Yorkshire, in 1915, and educated at Bingley Grammar School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. A Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, he was a university lecturer in mathematics from 1945 to 1958, when he was appointed to the post of Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy (1958-73). He was later made Director of the Cambridge Institute of Theoretical Astronomy (1966-73), which he himself had founded. In 1972 he was knighted, and in 1974 he was awarded a Royal Medal by Her Majesty the Queen in recognition of his distinguished contribution to theoretical physics and cosmology.
Sir Fred Hoyle's publications include The Nature of the Universe (1950; in Pelican), A Decade of Decision (1953), Frontiers of Astronomy (1956), Of Men and Galaxies (1964), Ten Faces of the Universe (1977), Stonehenge (1977) and (with N. C. Wickramasinghe) Lifecloud: The Origin of Life in the Universe (1978). His novels include The Black Cloud (1957), Ossian's Ride (1959) and October the First is Too Late (1966). Fifth Planet (1963), Rockets in Ursa Major (1969), Seven Steps to the Sun (1970), The Molecule Men (1971), The Inferno (1972) and The Incandescent Ones (1977) were written with Geoffrey Hoyle. Fred Hoyle has also published a play, Rockets in Ursa Major (1962), and is the joint-author of A for Andromeda (1962), a television serial.
Born in 1942, Geoffrey Hoyle is Fred Hoyle's son. He was educated at Bryanston and Cambridge University, which he left in order to work in modern communications and motion pictures. He is now a full-time writer, working sometimes in collaboration with his father but often independently.
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First published in Great Britain by William Heinemann Ltd 1978 Published in Penguin Books 1980
Copyright © Fred Hoyle and Geoffrey Hoyle, 1978 All rights reserved
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Contents |
1 August 7th-11th: The Threads 9
2 August 12th: The Threads Interweave 35
3 August 13th: Hermann Kapp and Others 51
4 August 14th: The Terrorists Assemble 70
5 August 15th: The Construction Begins 98
6 August 16th: A Chance for the Police 108
7 August 17th: A Matter of Timing 128
8 August 18th: The Westminster Disaster 178
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The following characters, appearing in this story, have no relation to any persons known to the authors:
The President of the U.S.A.
The British Prime Minister
The Party Chairman
Heisal Woods, U.S. Secretary of State
Henry Fielding, British Home Secretary
Victor Kuzmin, Soviet Ambassador to the U.N.
Pamplin Forsythe, British Ambassador to the U.N.
Hermann Kapp, a terrorist
Anna Morgue (alias Félix) a terrorist
Abu l'Weifa (alias Pedro-the-Basque), a terrorist
Al Simmonds, a terrorist
Chief Inspector Cluny Robertson
Superintendent Willy Best
Sir Stanley Farrar, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police
Robert Becker, head of the C.I.A.
Valas Georgian, high official in the K.G.B.
Igor Markov, subordinate to Valas Georgian
Colonel Barry Gwent, British Military Intelligence
General Holland, British Military Intelligence
Couriers:
Alex Semjanov
Captain Luri Otto
Klaus Harstein
Father O'Donovan
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Sunion Webb, an intellectual
Ernest Carruthers, an intellectual
Reporters:
Jack Hart
Stan Tambling
Agents:
Robert Morales
Rollie Schooners
Maxwell Burt
Ole Grote
Ron Weld
Tom Osborne, President of I.H.M. of Canada
Roberta Osborne, his wife
Pieter van Elders, a minister of the South African government
David Kemp, a British lawyer
Paco Palmgren, a Swedish lawyer
Susi, a girl friend of Hermann Kapp
Jane Barrow, secretary to Becker
Colonel Abdul Hassim, a Libyan minister
Louis-le-Poisson
J. J. Marquette
Others, unnamed
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