Britain is in the grips of an energy crisis: political failure has plunged the country into freezing darkness. Can the retired director of a near-derelict power station save the nation from chaos and disorder?

Black Start is a short story by the British industrialist Sir Andrew Cook CBE and a timely warning about the dangers of short-sighted energy policy and the loss of expert engineering knowledge.

Sir Andrew Cook CBE is a leading British industrialist with a lifelong industry in engineering, history and politics.