Just in Time. The New Thriller : from Harry Buckle. The vineyards of South Western France, bordering the calm charms of the Canal du Midi, with it's old stone villages and canal side cafe's basking in the warm sun, provide a deceptive start to this thriller.
As we trace the increasingly urgent steps needed to prevent a series of events, that could seriously disrupt the world of 'Just in Time' shipping on which the modern world totally relies.
Gathering pace, but with some degree of laconic humour, it rapidly takes us from the traditional intrigues of Shanghai and Singapore, via a barbecue cooked by The President of the United States,to a picturesque old town on the River Rhine, and on to the lawless badlands of Western Sahara, just South of Morocco.
Today,85% of everything we need to work, live, eat, and survive travels across the oceans in 'Just in Time 'shipped containers.
Even if we are lucky enough to live on locally produced food stuffs the machinery used to plant, harvest, process, store and deliver, or for us to cook such items will be relying on imported and 'Just in Time' shipped parts.
As are our water supplies, our offices, factories, hospitals, transportation and communications.
Cut off or interrupt the: And it's like turning off the life support system of a nation.
The reality, or just the rumour, of empty shelves in urban food shops,has several times in recent years produced instant break downs of local law and order in the UK. Europe and the USA. Author Harry Buckle says : "I try to write enjoyable and I hope thrilling which doesn't require the reader to be tuned into computer generated graphic or need to have any dark and threatening recesses of their minds disturbed."
"Having said that, despite I hope, this novel being an easy and exciting read the reality is, any threat to our total reliance on 'Just in Time' for all that we need for the comfortable and safe life we are mostly used to, is a much needed and realistic wake up call."
As we trace the increasingly urgent steps needed to prevent a series of events, that could seriously disrupt the world of 'Just in Time' shipping on which the modern world totally relies.
Gathering pace, but with some degree of laconic humour, it rapidly takes us from the traditional intrigues of Shanghai and Singapore, via a barbecue cooked by The President of the United States,to a picturesque old town on the River Rhine, and on to the lawless badlands of Western Sahara, just South of Morocco.
Today,85% of everything we need to work, live, eat, and survive travels across the oceans in 'Just in Time 'shipped containers.
Even if we are lucky enough to live on locally produced food stuffs the machinery used to plant, harvest, process, store and deliver, or for us to cook such items will be relying on imported and 'Just in Time' shipped parts.
As are our water supplies, our offices, factories, hospitals, transportation and communications.
Cut off or interrupt the: And it's like turning off the life support system of a nation.
The reality, or just the rumour, of empty shelves in urban food shops,has several times in recent years produced instant break downs of local law and order in the UK. Europe and the USA. Author Harry Buckle says : "I try to write enjoyable and I hope thrilling which doesn't require the reader to be tuned into computer generated graphic or need to have any dark and threatening recesses of their minds disturbed."
"Having said that, despite I hope, this novel being an easy and exciting read the reality is, any threat to our total reliance on 'Just in Time' for all that we need for the comfortable and safe life we are mostly used to, is a much needed and realistic wake up call."
