Super-Cannes

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 - an intriguing murder mystery that was also an unnerving vision of a society with too much time on its hands. Now, in Super-Cannes, he delves into another closed community - where this time it is claimed that 'work is the new leisure.' Paul Sinclair stumbles on a beguiling mystery when he accompanies his wife Jane to the south of France where she is to work as a doctor in Eden-Olympia, a high-tech business park set in the hills above Cannes. With the very latest in facilities, Eden-Olympia appears to be a paradise for its hard-working, high-achieving workforce. So what caused Jane's apparently sane and respected predecessor to set out one morning and murder ten people on a shooting spree that would make headlines around the world?