Kingdom Come

Kingdom Come
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A masterpiece of fiction from J. G. Ballard, which asks could Consumerism turn into Facism?A gunman opens fire in a shopping mall. Not a terrorist, apparently, but a madman with a rifle. Or not, as he is mysteriously (and quickly) set free without charge.One of the victims is the father of Richard Pearson, unemployed advertising executive and life-long rebel. Now he is driving out to Brooklands, the apparently peaceful town on the M25 which has at its heart the shining shoppers’ paradise where the shooting happened – the Metro-Centre. Richard, determined to unravel the mystery, starts to believe that something deeply sinister lurks behind the pristine facades of the labyrinthine mall, its 24-hour cable TV and sports club.In this, his final novel, Ballard holds up a mirror to Middle England, reflecting an unsettling image of suburbia and revealing the darker forces at work beneath the gloss of consumerism and flag-waving patriotism.This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard’s works, featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Ned Beauman, Ali Smith, Neil Gaiman and Martin Amis) and brand-new cover designs.

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Deborah Levy. Kingdom Come

Kingdom Come

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Contents

INTRODUCTION BY DEBORAH LEVY

The St George’s Cross

The Homecoming

The Riot

The Resistance Movement

The Metro-Centre

Going Home

Snakes and Ladders

Accidents and Emergencies

The Beach at the Holiday Inn

Street People

A Hard Night

Neon Palaces

Duncan Christie

Towards a Willed Madness

The Prisoner in the Tower

The Bomb Attack

The Geometry of the Crowd

A Failed Revolution

The Need to Understand

The Racing Circuit

A New Politics

The Trenchcoat Hero

The Women’s Refuge

A Fascist State

Lonely, Lost, Angry

A Bullet in the Hand

An Anxious Intermission

The Old Man’s Quest

The Stricken City

Assassination

‘Defend the Dome!’

The Republic of the Metro-Centre

The Consumer Life

Work Makes You Free

Normality

Shrines and Altars

Prayers and Wool-Wash Cycles

Tell Him

The Last Stand

Exit Strategies

A Solar Cult

PAPERING OVER THE CRACKS J. G. BALLARD talks to SARAH O’REILLY

REMAKING THE WORLD BY J. G. BALLARD

About the author

By the same author

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J. G. BALLARD

J. G. Ballard, Kingdom Come

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‘The threat of it.’

I wanted to take her hand again, but she seemed to be blushing. As the afternoon ended, a reddish glow lit the deep mirror of the Metro-Centre dome, an inner sun.

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