Nick Randall

This book illustrates the cyclical pattern in the kinds of dilemmas that confront political leaders and, in particular, disjunctive political leaders affiliated with vulnerable political regimes. The volume covers three major episodes in disjunction: the interwar crisis between 1923 and 1940, afflicting Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald and Neville Chamberlain; the collapse of Keynesian welfarism between 1970 and 1979, dealt with by Edward Heath, Harold Wilson and James Callaghan; and the ongoing crisis of neoliberalism beginning in 2008, affecting Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Theresa May. Based on this series of case studies of disjunctive prime ministers, the authors conclude that effective disjunctive leadership is premised on judicious use of the prime ministerial toolkit in terms of deciding whether, when and where to act, effective diagnostic and choice framing, and the ability to manage both crises and regimes.

How would you survive an EMP attack? Roy and Josie Foster and ten year old daughter, Alex, are faced with that question when an EMP knocks out the power grid and sends the United States back to the Stone Ages in an instant. Well-stockpiled with supplies on their secluded homestead, the Fosters seem ready and well-prepared to outlast the aftermath of the EMP. But that changes during a home invasion that forces Roy to shoot one of the intruders, the brother to the leader of an armed and dangerous ex-convict gang scavenging for supplies and preying on the innocent in the countryside. Vowing vengeance and in desperate need of the Fosters' stockpile, the gang prepares to launch a deadly and well-coordinated attack on the homestead. Facing overwhelming odds, the Foster family is faced with a critical decision: do they abandon their homestead and their stockpile with it, or do they stay and fight to defend what belongs to them? For Family is Book #1 in the EMP Grid Down Trilogy, the action-packed saga of the Foster family as they struggle to survive and protect one another in the aftermath of a devastating EMP attack.

When the grid goes down across the entire United States, two brothers named Randall and Thomas Parker find themselves cut off from the rest of their family and trapped in a world of chaos. Fighting their way north to their family's lake cabin in an attempt to find them, things take a turn for the worst when they come into conflict with a large and well-organized survivalist community called the Compound, led by a ruthless leader named Lewis Butler who rules the community with an iron fist. When Thomas is captured by the Compound's powerful forces and delivered into Butler's brutal hands, it's up to Randall to race against time to locate their family and lead a harrowing rescue operation to save his brother before it's too late. "When The Grid Went Down" is Book #1 in the Surviving The EMP Trilogy, a trilogy of post-apocalyptic novels filled with action and suspense as the Parker family struggles to survive in a world filled with hostile forces and danger at every turn.