In Overload we enter the high-tech, high-tension environment of the power industry. Nim Goldman is Vice President of Golden State Power & Light, the giant corporation supplying electricity to the power hungry state of California.He's a man with a big job and all the women he can handle, but he knows the crunch is coming. Soon, very soon, power famine will strike the most advanced society the world has ever known...`3,200,000 kilowatts, OPEC terrorists, power thieves, dwindling energy reserves, hypocrisy and paralysis in high places, darkness and chaos for power-guzzling California..

Arthur Hailey was born in 1920 at Luton, where he attended school, then worked as an office boy and clerk. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he joined Force and rose through the ranks to become a pilot and Flight Lieutenant. In 1974 he emigrated to Canada successively a real-estate salesman, business-magazine editor and a sales and advertising executive. He became a full-time author in 1956 following the overnight success of his television play 'Flight into Danger' which was performed worldwide, later becoming a novel and a film. In his long career as a novelist he wrote eleven novels which have been published in twenty-seven languages. Arthur Hailey died on November 24, 2004.