Chursleigh
Growing up on the Chursleigh Estate in the latter days of WWII. Jack Cutler becomes involved with some local bigwigs, Needing access to deliver surplus supplies, to outlying villages. They prevail on him; to make use of his access, to a tractor and trailer.
They create a consortium to take advantage of the new situation, as the war in Europe comes to an end. They've built up a kitty and use it to buy up the freehold; to a wartime bomber Station built on Chursleigh land holdings during the war. They use this kitty to pay-off the Chursleigh overdraft at the local National Provincial Bank in exchange for the former Bomber Station. When it's repatriated to the Chursleigh Estate, as the war ends.
The consortium goes from strength to strength; until a final break up occurs, Squadron Leader Guy Shard RAF son of the Manor; comes home from war in the Burmese Jungle. He was thought to be Missing in Action, but managed to survive. Now he's back and sets about sorting out what has gone on in his absence
. He takes over running of the Estate from where he left off. But is soon approached by Sir Godfrey Bright; to be Chief Executive at his Bright Aeroplane Company. He's turned to building civil airliners; as the UK Airlines go head to head with the Yanks, Read on about all that follows; in this postwar saga of who dares wins. In the battle for command of the trans-Atlantic Airways.
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Another Time Another Place
With roots in the Russian revolution; as WWI, draws to its end. Alexander Popov flees the raging mob to escape to the USA and prepare a home for his pregnant wife to join him when the baby is fit to travel.
In the aftermath of the revolution, as his ancestral estate is taken over and destroyed by the raging communist mob, they lose touch. Changing his name to Alex Popper; he arrives in the USA, to become a Bigtime Boy in the Solomons Brothers Partnership on Wall Street. But is accidentally killed; in a showdown with Ralph Solomons, the senior partner. But he covers it up as a suicide, in the Wall Street Crash of '29.
Angie Pilkington: Alex's personal assistant; suspects what happened and keeps, a log. Hoping she can find a way to expose Solomons and discover what really what went on. When the son Alex never knew; rises to the higher ranks of the Soviet Hierarchy. He's sent to the United Nations as the Soviet Envoy and goes looking for the father, he never knew.
In reality though; he's been sent to forage postwar USA for computers and technology for the Soviet war machine. But he'is using his position too; to equip a secret base he's created, in the foothills of the Vladayskaya. He's carrying out research on a system he's developing to program computer remotely. He's out to find a way of destroying Western economies of the the West's Allies and to take control of the Politburo..
Retired Canadian Agent 'Jig' Prendergast; is coaxed out of retirement by Desmond Chandler; a new Canadian Minister of Telecoms and Comms. He's out to get to the bottom of what's going on. When a second Canadian airliner; on it's way to Moscow, disappears off the radar, over the Arctic wastes of Northern Canada.
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Bigboys Games
Impressed by the way Prentice dealt with the villians who murdered his daughter. Alexander Maxwell, Lord Stigwell of Bashwell Higham hires him to make waves in his centuries old Victorian Merchant Trader. Drastic overhaul is needed; as the new millennium beckons. But Stigwell has bitten off more than he can chew; as Prentice goes off message.
A big bold future beckons as Prentice ropes in Carson Holdings and Sean Blairgower's Tartan Property Empire; to create Standish Holdings Plc. But it turns out to be a marriage made in haste; that lurches from crisis to crisis, as Simon Horburg scion of a the Horburg Merchant comes looking for a bargain basement takeovers. While Eastend barrow boy Charlie Clikker lurches from emerging bankrupt to golden boy in harness with Jack Greensmith and his brand new Internet eBank.
Who will come out on top: Prentice with his burgeoning Empire of Derring-do. Charlie Clikker and his Provident Court Trust Fund or Simon Horburg playing games that the others can only aspire to?
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