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  • Running Wild

  • By: J. G. Ballard
  • Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
  • Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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Running Wild

By: J. G. Ballard
Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
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Summary

A high-security luxury housing estate in the Thames Valley is the setting for a disturbing outbreak of violence in this compelling novella from the acclaimed author of Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes.

Pangbourne Village housing estate is exclusive, expensive and protected from the outside world by the very latest in security systems. It should be the perfect place to bring up a child. So why, in the space of 10 minutes early one morning, were the 32 adult residents brutally murdered, and all 13 children abducted? No kidnapper has ever come forward, and the police are mystified. It is only when psychiatrist Richard Greville is called in that the truth behind the massacre gradually becomes clear.…

©1989 J. G. Ballard (P)2014 Audible Studios
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A very easy and compelling listen, but disturbing and all too easy applicable, if not more so , to the present.

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