Gridlock (novel) the inventor of a hydrogen-based power system for cars – green energy – that sinister forces, most likely representing the oil industry, seek to suppress. His disability is aggressive-sympathetically handled, for example he actively embraces the word 'spastic', claiming it back, taking it away from the term of abuse it had become (in the UK) at the time of publication. Gridlock (novel) Gridlock is a 1991 novel by Ben Elton. The novel depicts a near-future London in which traffic congestion has reached almost critical levels, such that accidents in a few key places could bring the entire city's traffic network
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (novel) in fighting for equality and freedom. About the publication of the novel and the release of the film "The Spook Who Sat by the Door" (1973), directed by Ivan Dixon, Greenlee said: Close collaboration between film director Ivan Dixon and screenplay writer Sam Greenlee realised a cinematic representation that did not lose or lessen the strong social analyses and encouragement to revolution in the novel. The political atmosphere of the United States was especially restless in 1969, the year of publication of "The Spook Who Sat by the Door", because the contentious politics for civil rights, for women's rights, and