Gridiron
  • Published: 1 December 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409018858
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384

Gridiron

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A Sunday Times bestseller, Gridiron is a dazzling thriller set in LA from ‘England’s answer to Michael Crichton’ (Financial Times)

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.
  • Published: 1 December 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409018858
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384
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About the author

Philip Kerr

Philip Kerr was born in Edinburgh in 1956, and lives in London. He is the author if March Violets, The Pale Criminal, A German Requiem, A Philosophical Investigation, Dead Meat (shown on television as Grushko), Gridiron and Esau.

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Praise for Gridiron

Brilliant thriller about a computerised building that turns into a killing machine

Independent

England's answer to Michael Crichton

Financial Times

I loved Gridiron. It is truly original disaster novel with a theme that is awesome

Ruth Rendell

Ingeniously gruesome... I found myself turning the pages in feverish anticipation

The Times

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