"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<U+2019> cars were sent to the mainland and for the past month the islanders have been (3z(Bdriving(3y (Bthe 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.<U+2019>s flashy press event. Sandra is more than ready for this new world. Her husband died after falling asleep at the wheel and she<U+2019>s relieved that her two teens, Archie and Katie, will never need driver<U+2019>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<U+2019>re starting to organize. They<U+2019>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<U+2019>s going to be a bumpy ride."--Publisher.

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