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Most of the appeal of the book comes from the vigor of Skirrow's writing, its fast-paced action, and the light-hearted first-person narrative of the hero, John Brock, with its many witty asides. The plot itself is extremely simple, with no sub-plots, complications, or side stories. A rich, powerful, titled, Welsh madman and industrialist, Lord Llewellyn, believes himself to be the direct descendant of [[Henry VII]] and hence the legitimate ruler of Great Britain; he has therefore conceived and carried out a 20-year scheme to destroy, in a single moment, the entire [[Electrical grid|electrical grid]] of England.
 
'''It Won't Get You Anywhere''', published in 1966, is the first of three [[Thriller|thrillers]] by the English novelist [[Desmond Skirrow]] about [[John Brock]], an irreverent but very, very tough advertising executive who is also a sometime undercover agent. Published in England by [[The Bodley Head]] and in the United States by [[Lippincott]], it is a little under 80,000 words in length and almost certainly the best of the Brock novels.<ref>''It Won't Get You Anywhere'', The Bodley Head, London, 1966; Lippincott, New York, 1966, ISBN 0552079111</ref> Published in today's market, it might be classified as a [[Techno thriller|techno thriller]], as it does contain a few elements of that genre. More likely, however, it simply falls into that category of spy thrillers that contain some elements of [[Science fiction|science fiction]] such as [[Moonraker]] and [[Thunderball]], the near contemporaneous but far more famous books by [[Ian Fleming]], and going as far back as [[The Dark Frontier]], the 1936, first novel by [[Eric Ambler]], in which an [[Atomic bomb|atomic bomb]] is involved.
 
The plot is simple, with no complications or side stories. A rich, powerful, titled Welsh madman, Lord Llewellyn, who believes himself to be the direct descendant of [[Henry VII]] and hence the legitimate ruler of Great Britain, has hatched a scheme to destroy, in a single moment, the entire  


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Most of the appeal of the book comes from the vigor of Skirrow's writing, its fast-paced action, and the light-hearted first-person narrative of the hero, John Brock, with its many witty asides. The plot itself is extremely simple, with no sub-plots, complications, or side stories. A rich, powerful, titled, Welsh madman and industrialist, Lord Llewellyn, believes himself to be the direct descendant of Henry VII and hence the legitimate ruler of Great Britain; he has therefore conceived and carried out a 20-year scheme to destroy, in a single moment, the entire electrical grid of England.

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