David George Lawrence

Dan Jackson’s humdrum life is thrown into turmoil when a young scientist develops a revolutionary mind-control compound, designed to counter soaring crime levels on Britain’s streets. It is stolen by thieves who immediately commit suicide and the scientist quickly disappears, leaving Dan, ex-girlfriend Sandra and conspiracy-nut Conor pursued for his formula across the country by a quasi-government agency, corrupt police and a psychotic gangland enforcer.

As they are slowly exposed to the sickening reality of Britain in 2019, they realise there is nothing callous Prime Minister Craig Davison won’t do to stay in power and that they must never let him get his hands on the formula. Having witnessed the brutal repression of free speech and murder of peaceful protesters, the motley group of fugitives soon face a stark choice - to either flee and hope CYFA agents never find them or assassinate the beating heart of corruption in the country.

The Cromwell Factor is a fictional story set in a not-too-distant dystopian Britain, following the lives of an amoral Prime Minister and one of the millions suffering under his corrupt premiership. A rollercoaster tale set in a time when politicians stand for everything and nothing, public servants are increasingly unaccountable and ordinary people are ever more marginalised; this is a pulsating thriller with present-day parallels many readers will readily identify with.