Gridlock
Author: Ben Elton
By the television comedy writer of “Blackadder” and “The Young Ones,” this is an ecological disaster novel written with humor but containing an underlying seriousness. 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 fuzzy dice. How did it come to this? How did the ultim….Read More
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