Yet again J. G. Ballard’s inimitable clairvoyance is on display in this timely, powerful story of a community shattered by a massive act of violence.

A massacre rocks a suburban utopia — thirty-two adults murdered, and their children missing — in Running Wild , one of Ballard’s most dazzlingly subversive works of fiction.

“To Ballard, lack of choice... is a dangerous state of being. In Running Wild , it’s not the children who are doing the running; it is the society that raised them” ( San Francisco Chronicle ).