Heart Clock

(Also published as Matlock's System.)The economy of Britain was in a precarious state. Doom threatened large on the horizon, until Matthew Matlock solved the problem so simply. Economic stability, he said, was directly related to population growth. Regulate the latter and the former will reappear naturally. And he had his own original ideas on regulation methods, too.Now, forty years later, he no longer upholds this system. His fight is to undo all the work he accomplished so many years ago. At first he is alone, till suddenly he finds he has become important; to the Prime Minister, to the Scottish Ambassador, and to the mysterious 'Abbot'. Soon Matlock can trust no-one, for no-one is what they seem to be, or as he would wish them to be.A startling new work of imaginative fiction -- a Sunday Times science fiction choice of the year.(From back cover of 1974 New English Library paperback edition.)