Super-Cannes

by Ballard, J. G. | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published 06/08/2001 by HarperCollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 416 pages
197 x 129 x 27mm | 282g

A high-tech business park on the Mediterranean is the setting for a most disturbing crime in this reissue featuring an introduction by Ali Smith.

People are so immersed in their work they wouldn’t notice the end of the world.

A high-tech business park lies hidden in the hills above Cannes – an ultra-modern utopia where residents live a life of luxury and seclusion.

But when Jane Sinclair arrives in Eden-Olympia for a new medical post, a disturbing mystery awaits. What caused her apparently sane predecessor to murder ten people in a shooting spree that made headlines around the world? As her husband Paul explores his new surroundings, he begins to uncover a thriving subculture of crime that is spiralling out of control.

Both novel of ideas and complex thriller, Super-Cannes is an extraordinary satire from the author of ‘Empire of the Sun’, ‘The Drowned World’ and ‘Crash’.