Running Wild

Ballard, J. G.

ISBN 10: 0091734983 / ISBN 13: 9780091734985

Published by Hutchinson, London, 1988

About this Item

This is a true UK first edition /first printing, with the words 'First Published in Great Britain' on the copyright page. A dazzling novella, that takes the form of a detective story, in which a psychiatrist investigates a massacre in suburbia. By the multi award-winning author of 'Crash' , 'Empires of the Sun', 'The Atrocity Exhibition' and 'High Rise'. We protect all our books with a removable plastic cover, and send them with care. Seller Inventory # 001260

Bibliographic Details

Title: Running Wild

Publisher: Hutchinson, London

Publication Date: 1988

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: First Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

This short novella tells the story of the brutal murder of 32 residents of an exclusive estate in West London, one summer morning. The story is told in the form of a forensic diary, kept by the deputy psychiatric adviser to the Police, Dr Richard Greville. J.G. Ballard also wrote "The Day of Creation", "Empire of the Sun", "Myths of the Near Future" and "The Unlimited Dream Company".

From the Back Cover:

A high-security luxury housing estate in the Thames Valley is the setting for a disturbing outbreak of violence in this compelling reissued novella from the acclaimed author of Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes.

Pangbourne Village housing estate is exclusive, expensive and protected from the outside world by the very latest in security systems. It should be the perfect place to bring up a child. So why, in the space of ten minutes early one morning, were the thirty-two adult residents brutally murdered, and all thirteen children abducted? No kidnapper has ever come forward, and the police are mystified. It is only when psychiatrist Richard Greville is called in that the truth behind the massacre gradually becomes clear. . .