We need to act five times faster to avoid dangerous climate change. As Greenland melts, Australia burns, and greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, we think we know who the villains are: oil companies, consumerism, weak political leaders. But what if the real blocks to progress are the ideas and institutions that are supposed to be helping us? Five Times Faster is an inside story from Simon Sharpe, who has spent ten years at the forefront of climate change policy and diplomacy. In our fight to avoid dangerous climate change, science is pulling its punches, diplomacy is picking the wrong battles, and economics has been fighting for the other side. This provocative and engaging book sets out how we should rethink our strategies and reorganise our efforts in the fields of science, economics, and diplomacy, so that we can act fast enough to stay safe.

An explosive cocktail of greed, murderous conspiracy ...and a twist of Lemon. Put-upon MI5 officer Tim Lemon is fed up with being handed low priority tasks. The rest of his team, under brusquely efficient Helen Stride, concentrates on the critical business of pre-empting jihadist terror. Tim, however, is sidetracked with an investigation into a hedge fund manager and his Russian oligarch business partner. But Tim and Helen are increasingly thrown together as they unravel a conspiracy of cataclysmic proportions and events mount to a heart-stopping climax. 'Kept me up till four in the morning - I couldn't bear to put it down.' Tom Kingsley, BAFTA-nominated film director