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by Gordon Frank Newman (Author)
Merry Christmas! A reimagined version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol for the 21st Century. Eddie Scarr, a modern facsimile of Scrooge, is angrier and more damaged than the original, but just as successful in his own milieu. He's a Department for Work and Pensions enforcement officer whose sole reason for existing, it seems, is to make life as difficult as possible for would-be benefit fraudsters, and everyone else who crosses his path. A workaholic, he is driven in pursuit of cheats, even on Christmas Eve, despite being wracked with a vicious head cold. As he makes his way home to his cold apartment and equally cold bed, he has an alarming encounter with a former clients, whom he had previously hounded to death. Even more alarming encounters await him when he logs on to his computer at home. But will any of these encounters change him for the better?
Author Biography
Gordon Frank Newman (born 22 May 1947) is an English writer and television producer. In addition to his two earlier series Law & Order and The Nation's Health, each based on his books, he is known for more recent TV series including Judge John Deed and New Street Law. He is also a double BAFTA winner. He wrote and created BBC Radio 4's longest running drama series, 58 plays from his novel, The Corrupted, a fictional ' history' of the crime-business-politics nexus from the 1950s to the bank crash of 2008.
