JG Ballard - High-Rise

This weeks awful scenes in London and across the UK put me in mind of JG Ballard's novel High-Rise, for my money his finest work, and caused me to re-visit it (every cloud and all that). The story tells the story of the affluent tenants of a tower block who become hellbent on an orgy of destruction and, as the blurb puts it, 'society slips into a violent reverse as the inhabitants of the high-rise, driven by primal urges, recreate a world ruled by the laws of the jungle'.