Political thriller set in the nightmare, dystopian future of 1990.
Britain is under the heel of the PCD, the Department of Public Control, a tyrannical bureaucracy. Journalist Jim Kyle helps a doctor and his family to leave the country.
Kyle helps Dr Vickers, but without his family. Kyle attempts to use the law but comes up against the state and the PCD legal department.
A dissident Union leader is sent to an Adult Rehabilitation Centre, where enemies of the state are sent, after criticising the regime. Kyle investigates.
A state visit by an important American political advisor is not quite what it seems. Kyle gets a lead on the real motives for his trip to Britain.
Kyle comes to the aid of an unauthorised dissident newsletter, which is being threatened by the PCD after making claims about a political broadcast.
Kyle investigates the corrupt legal system and aids a judge who fights back. Meanwhile. the PCD turns the screws on the judge's wife to silence him.
Kyle's past comes back to haunt him as the PCD finally put him on trial - with Dr Vickers as the main prosecution witness.
The PCD get revenge after the trial and turn Kyle into a non-citizen. Forced to wander the streets, scrounging for food and shelter, can Kyle fight back against the state?
A 'pentagon', one of a growing army of dissident groups, prepares to take on the PCD. Meanwhile the Department's new boss is a former lover of Kyle who tries to locate his informer.
When the government clamps down on illicit suppliers as food in shops becomes scarce, Kyle acts on information from a source on the inside to get to the truth.
Kyle is taken in by the police commissioner and asked to investigate Careguard, a private security company. A deal is struck, but can the Commissioner be trusted?
The PCD turns the heat up on Kyle when more dissenting criticism is printed and they begin Authorised Systematic Harassment. But has the PCD gone too far this time?
Kyle investigates an extortion network involving non-citizens and in doing so manages to turn the tables on the PCD.
A chess champion is refused a visa to leave the country and a ‘pentagon' hatch a plot for a kidnap. Kyle makes the connection and investigates.
Kyle is taken in and interrogated by the PCD about his involvement in the kidnap plan. Meanwhile, the dissident organisations up their plans for revolt.
The dissident's tactics are bearing fruit and the PCD begins to crack. Have Kyle and the dissidents finally finished the PCD for good - and what does this mean for him?
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