Cover of Super-Cannes

Super-Cannes

by Unknown Author

416 pages2014HarperCollins Publishers LimitedISBN 9780006551607

About this book

<p>A high-tech business park on the Mediterranean coast is the setting for crime of the most disturbing kind in this extraordinary bestseller from the writer widely regarded as Britain's No. 1 living novelist.</p> <br> <br> <p>After over three decades at the forefront of modern British fiction writing, J.G. Ballard reached a new generation of readers with the bestselling 'Cocaine Nights' (1996) - an intriguing murder mystery that was also an unnerving vision of a society with too much time on its hands. In 'Super-Cannes', he delves into another closed community - where this time it is claimed that 'work is the new leisure'.</p> <p>A disturbing mystery awaits Paul and Jane Sinclair when they arrive in Eden-Olympia, a high-tech business park in the hills above Cannes. Jane is to work as a doctor for the executives who live in this ultra-modern workers' paradise. But what caused her apparently sane predecessor to set out one morning and murder ten people in a shooting spree that made headlines around the world? As Paul investigates his new surroundings, he begins to uncover a thriving subculture of crime that is spiralling out of control.</p>

Publication Details

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Published
2014
Pages
416
ISBN
9780006551607
Language
en

About Unknown Author

James Graham Ballard was born and raised in the International Settlement in Shanghai, China to a chemist. In 1943 the Japanese occupied the International Settlement and Ballard's family was sent to the Lunghua Civilian Assembly Center, where they were interned for two years until the end of World War II. In 1946, Ballard went to England with his mother and sister, and stayed on in England after his mother and sister returned to China to rejoin his father. In 1949 he went to King's College, Cambridge to study medicine, but he began writing fiction and abandoned medicine in 1952 to pursue writing. In 1953 he joined the Air Force and was sent to the Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan to train. There he discovered science fiction in and he began to write science fiction. He left the RAF in 1954 and returned to England. In 1956 he published his science fiction story. In 1960 he committed to writing full-time.

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