OIL STRIKE by Wingate, John

New York 1976, St. Martin's, first US edition, hard bound in dust jacket, 5 1/4 x 8 , FINE/FINE CONDITION, 199 PAGES, 2 MAPS........................................................ Oil is discovered off the shore of Scotland. The exploitation of this most valuable commodity will affect the whole of the beautiful coastline, from Cape Wrath to the Clyde. It will also bring great prosperity to the people living in this area — but will the inevitable new way of life be any better, or the loss of wildlife and familiar scenery be too great a price to pay for material well-being ?Sulisker One, the huge steel platform built in Innochervie, must be completed in time for the following year's weather window. Nothing is going according to plan — could there be people who are deliberately trying to sabotage all efforts ? What can the British government, or the British Navy, do to protect their newest asset ?John Wingate is writing at the top of his form — a well-researched, sympathetically written novel, describing events that could very easily take place in the near future. here must always be progress — but at what price ?