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Running Wild
Adam Phillips

J. G. Ballard


A high-security luxury housing estate in the Thames Valley sees a disturbing outbreak of violence in this compelling novella, newly reissued with an introduction from Adam Phillips.Pangbourne Village is exclusive, expensive and protected from the outside world by the very latest in security systems. A seeming idyll of family life; 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? After months of fruitless investigation – and no word of the children or a ransom – the police are mystified. It is only when psychiatrist Richard Greville is called in that the truth behind the massacre gradually becomes clear.This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard’s works, featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Ali Smith, Iain Sinclair, Martin Amis and Ned Beauman) and brand-new cover designs from the artist Stanley Donwood.









J. G. BALLARD

Running Wild










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First published in Great Britain by Hutchinson in 1988

Copyright © J. G. Ballard 1988

The right of J. G. Ballard to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988.

Introduction © Adam Phillips 2014

Interview © Vanora Bennett 2008

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Cover by Stanley Donwood, with background colours partly formed from combustion of ammonium dichromate carried out by Dr Roy Lowry at Plymouth University; photographed by Anna Walker

Source ISBN: 9780006548195

Ebook Edition © OCTOBER 2014 ISBN: 9780008120269

Version: 2014-11-19




Contents


Cover (#u7d577d41-4dd7-5d55-a9c5-9faa7b127e08)

Title Page (#uce6ad1d9-4bd0-57c6-a806-8adf0b3c2a39)

Copyright (#ulink_c4807807-b2ee-56d6-95f7-fb440c935d60)

Introduction by Adam Phillips (#ulink_600e1d00-4da9-590e-b3f0-a8df685f62f6)

From the Forensic Diaries of Dr Richard Greville, Deputy Psychiatric Adviser, Metropolitan Police (#ulink_957447dc-1012-5951-af25-574eb23d3cc3)

Postscript, 8 December 1993 (#ulink_bbe1a015-8590-54e8-be5b-d54cfb1aa9a2)

Keep Reading (#u5d173285-f2c9-504d-9a26-0656d747dd8e)

Interview with J. G. Ballard (#ulink_7c64e61e-19b7-5603-8912-3a33999d6fd7)

About the Author (#ulink_63d9bc37-24ef-5656-8cd3-5892ded4b942)

By the Same Author (#ulink_4f32660d-b0f5-53a6-a89e-22d3b6c4de95)

About the Publisher





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