**The Definitive Cult, Postmodern Novel–a Shocking Blend of Violence, Transgression, and Eroticism** * * * **Reissued with a New Introduction from Zadie Smith** * * * When J. G. Ballard, our narrator, smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, he finds himself drawn with increasing intensity to the mangled impacts of car crashes. Robert Vaughan, a former TV scientist turned nightmare angel of the expressway, has gathered around him a collection of alienated crash victims and experiments with a series of autoerotic atrocities, each more sinister than the last. But Vaughan craves the ultimate crash–a head-on collision of blood, semen, engine coolant, and iconic celebrity. First published in 1973, *Crash* remains one of the most shocking novels of the twentieth century and was made into an equally controversial film by David Cronenberg.