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Gridlock

by Ben Elton · 1991

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Gridlock is when a city dies.

Killed in the name of freedom. Killed in the name of oil and steel. Choked on carbon monoxide and strangled with a pair of fluffy dice.

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How did it come to this? How did the ultimate freedom machine end up paralysing us all? How did we end up driving to our own funeral, in somebody else's gravy train?

Deborah and Geoffrey know, but they have transport problems of their own, and anyway, whoever it was that murdered the city can just as easily murder them.

Genre
humorhumorMore like thisLess of thisscience fictionscience fictionMore like thisLess of thissatiresatireMore like thisLess of thiscrimecrimeMore like thisLess of thismysterymysteryMore like thisLess of this
Themes
environmentenvironmentMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1990s1990sMore like thisLess of thisLondonLondonMore like thisLess of this
Mood
lightlightMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
long · 448 pages

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