The Grid - Hardcover

Kerr, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0446520535 ISBN 13: 9780446520539

Publisher: Grand Central Pub, 1996

Synopsis

During the grand opening of an ultra-modern, computer-controlled building in downtown Los Angeles, the architects discover to their horror that the computer has programmed itself to kill

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Review:

In the heart of a huge, beautiful new office building in downtown Los Angeles, something has gone totally, frighteningly wrong. The Yu Corporation Building, hailed as a monument to human genius, is quietly snuffing out employees it doesn't like. The brain of the building can't be outsmarted or unplugged -- if the people inside are to survive, they'll have to be very, very lucky.

From the Inside Flap:

Welcome to the most ingenious building ever designed. Now try to get out alive... In downtown Los Angeles it stands as a monument to man's genius--a glittering, high-tech office tower that washes its own windows, purifies its own air, and even knows which of its employees is using drugs. But now, the building known as the Gridiron has turned malevolent. And its first victim is about to die. From its hardware-jammed computer room on the fourth floor to the 300-foot-high tree that rises in tis atrium, the Gridiron for the men and women trapped inside, there is only one way out: through the raw, human will to survive.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grand Central Pub
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0446520535
• ISBN 13: 9780446520539
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 451