Look Both Ways

Inspired by his decades-long love of cars, internationally bestselling author Linwood Barclay envisions a world in which automotive technology outpaces our wildest dreams--and our darkest nightmares--in a gripping new novel of action and suspense These headlights are watching you... The media have descended on Garrett Island, a small, isolated community that is the setting of a visionary experiment. All the residents` cars were sent to the mainland and for the past month the islanders have been "driving" the Arrival, a revolutionary autonomous vehicle. With a simple voice command, an Arrival will take you wherever you want to go and, because the fleet is networked and aware of one another, car travel is now 100% safe. The future, it seems, has arrived. As the excitement reaches a fever pitch, Sandra Montrose--islander, single mom, and public relations executive--prepares for Arrival Inc.`s flashy press event. Sandra is more than ready for this new world. Her husband died after falling asleep at the wheel and she`s relieved that her two teens, Archie and Katie, will never need driver`s licenses. But as the celebratory day gets underway, disaster strikes. A visiting journalist has vanished, possibly murdered. Before long, the Arrivals run amok, no longer taking orders from their passengers. They`re starting to organize. They`re beginning to hunt. And they seem hell-bent on killing any human they encounter. Is this all just a tragic accident, a technological malfunction with deadly consequences? Or were the vehicles programmed to act this way in a cruel act of corporate sabotage? Or could it be that the Arrivals have a mind of their own? Fasten your seatbelts--it`s going to be a bumpy ride