Super-Cannes

A high-tech business park on the Mediterranean coast is the setting for a most disturbing crime in this bestseller from the master of dystopia, J.G. Ballard. 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 those who live in this ultra-modern workers' paradise. But what caused her predecessor to go on 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. Both a novel of ideas and a compelling thriller that will keep you turning the pages to the shocking denouement, Super-Cannes is an extraordinary satire from the bestselling author of Drowned World, Cocaine Nights and Crash. Extreme Metaphors, a collection of interviews with Ballard, will be published in 2012 Super-Cannes follows where our executive super-capitalist dreams utopia must lead and shows us how we might yet escape that dark and violent cul-de-sac. Ballard is the author of Empire of the Sun, Crash and his most recent bestseller, Cocaine Nights A high-tech business park on the Mediterranean coast is the setting for a crime of the most disturbing kind: spree killings. 'The first essential novel of the 21st century' The Independent