Books for Writers: A Look at Ballard's Super-Cannes

         The hero of  J.G. Ballard’s Super-Cannes is Paul Sinclair, a magazine editor who moves to the gated community of Eden-Olympia with his young wife. Paul was once a man of action but a flying accident, and the fact his wife is the primary breadwinner and the impetus for  their move, has rendered him largely impotent. Paul turns his attention to a mystery: Why did the young doctor, whose house they now live in and whose job Paul’s wife now has, go nuts and shoot ten people?