Heart Clock.

DICK MORLAND

Publication: Faber and Faber,, London, 1973

First edition. Author's first book in this series. Pseudonym of Reginald Hill. Only two books were written in this series, both were science fiction stories. In Matthew Matlock's England the population explosion has been controlled ... it is dealt with on Budget Day when the national Expectation of Life is regulated according to what the economy can bear. Matlock introduced the system and now, forty years later, he's fighting desperately against it. Fine bright copy in dust jacket and a scarce title.