Author:Philip Kerr
Los Angeles, 1988
Ray Richardson, a brilliant architechnologist, has created a dazzling new building: 'The Gridiron', in the heart of L. A.
The Gridiron represents the state-of-the-art in smart buildings: every aspect of the building, from temperature control to security, is controlled by an intricate computer system. On the eve of the building's official opening, a team gathers to put the finishing touches to Ray's new masterpiece. But there are a couple of unexplained deaths, which the team at first puts down to saboteurs. It is only when they discover how bizarre these deaths are that they realise the building - through its computer - is controlling them, and is set to destroy its creators.
England's answer to Michael Crichton
—— Financial TimesI loved Gridiron. It is truly original disaster novel with a theme that is awesome
—— Ruth RendellBrilliant thriller about a computerised building that turns into a killing machine
—— IndependentKerr 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 TelegraphIngeniously gruesome... I found myself turning the pages in feverish anticipation
—— The TimesBrilliant and compulsive
—— Evening StandardA haunting, compelling, and brilliant piece of fiction ... Packed with literary allusion and told with a sophistication and texture that owes much more to the nineteenth century than to the twentieth
—— The Times
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