- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used

Seller: Charing Cross Road Booksellers, Canton, GA, U.S.A.Charing Cross Road Booksellers
AbeBooks seller since January 25, 2005
Condition: Used - Fine
£ 10.69
Quantity: 1 available
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Black Cloth and Grey Board Covers with Silver Lettering to SPine; White Endpapers; book interior is clean and tight; very light soiling to book edges; 8vo; 451 pages; dustjacket is protected by a mylar wrapper and is clean and bright; silver areas of jacket have spotted, typical of this type of jacket printing with a metallic ink.
Seller Inventory # 20072532
- Title
- The Grid
- Author
- Kerr, Philip
- Publisher
- Warner Books, New York
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0446520535
- ISBN 13
- 9780446520539
- Edition
- First Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction - Mystery & Suspense
Something has gone wrong inside the immensely powerful brain of this corporate dream palace. Before the building is opened to the public, one member of a team of brilliant computer programmers dies slumped against his VDT, his eyes burned black. Then a security guard is found with his skull shattered. Now the men and women who know the building best - including its egomaniacal architect and the one person who may actually be able to reason with the computer - know that the building itself is spinning wildly out of control.
Built to survive power outages and the most massive earthquakes, the brain of the Gridiron cannot be unplugged and cannot be outsmarted. For the dozen people who are locked inside, the Gridiron is turning into a living, malevolent dungeon of terrors, where each death is more horrific than the one before, and human survival may be the ultimate achievement...
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Review
"I loved Gridiron. It is truly original disaster novel with a theme that is awesome" (Ruth Rendell)
"Brilliant thriller about a computerised building that turns into a killing machine" (Independent)
"Kerr paces the action, teases and controls... The novel is all the more powerful for being close enough to contemporary truth for this skillful writer to engender a real sense of horror... Severely frightening" (Frances Fyfield Daily Telegraph)
"Ingeniously gruesome... I found myself turning the pages in feverish anticipation" (The Times)
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Charing Cross Road Booksellers
Canton, GA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since January 25, 2005
Shipping rates within U.S.A.
| Item | 5 to 14 business days | 3 to 6 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | £ 3.53 | £ 7.81 |
Payment methods
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Store description
Charing Cross Road Booksellers is located in the northern suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia. The firm was founded in 1992 and has more than 10,000 hardback volumes and more than 4,000 paperback books for purchase.
Specialty
Architecture, Engineering, Literature, Science, The Presidents, ArtSeller's business information
Charing Cross Road Booksellers
GA, U.S.A.
Terms of sale
All books are available on a first come/first served basis. Returns require pre-authorization from us, and are permitted only if the book is not as described or we accidentally send the wrong book from that listed. Return postage is refunded only if book is returned insured. We will NOT ship signed books unless you confirm with us that the book is actually signed prior to placing your order as ABE's computer system has described some books in the past as "Signed" when they were not. We do not offer Dealer discounts and cannot drop-ship.
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