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BOOKS, Page 112Suburban SleepBy Paul Gray
RUNNING WILD
by J.G. Ballard
Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 104 pages; $12.95
Something horrible, instantly dubbed by the British tabloids
as the Pangbourne Massacre, has occurred in an elegant, exclusive
development west of London: 32 adult residents of the tasteful new
houses have been murdered, and 13 children have disappeared.
Baffled investigators, ranging from the local police up to the Home
Office and Scotland Yard, eventually call on Dr. Richard Greville,
a psychiatrist who specializes in criminal behavior. Running Wild
is his report.
It is also the latest novel by J.G. Ballard, a world-class
writer of science fiction (The Day of Creation) and autobiography
(Empire of the Sun). Old Ballard fans may regret the brevity of
this latest installment, but they, along with new readers, are
certain to solve the mystery before Dr. Greville does. As he
explains, "My failure to recognize the obvious, in common with
almost everyone else concerned, is a measure of the true mystery
of the Pangbourne Massacre." In other words, as Ballard has
suggested in other tales, the sleep of suburbia produces monsters.