Gridlock: Ben Elton

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. How does it come to this? How does the ultimate freedom machine end up paralysing us all? How did we end up driving to our own funeral, on someone 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. And Ben Elton knows, too. Set in a dystopian future with unlikely heroes and heroines who know what's going on - but can they stop the murder of their city before the killer can get them?