Sliver (1991) is a novel by U.S. author Ira Levin about the mysterious goings-on in a privately-owned New York highrise apartment building, especially after a new tenant -- an attractive young woman working in publishing -- has moved in. Phillip Noyce directed a film according to a book around 1993.

Synopsis

Book version

After she makes the acquaintance of a handsome & friendly young human world health organization dwells in the equivalent "sliver" building she doesn't understand at the start that he is the creator. When keeping a moo profile himself, he turns intent on understand an nasty lot all about the more habitant including several of their secrets. It so turns out that he occurs as modern-contemporary Peeping Tom who, unknhave to everyone, hwhen had surveillance cameras & mike installed within each lone flat of the home, using his own place in the building serving as his headquarters. the novel is as well a slaying mystery, & the beautiful heroine before long becomes a damsel in distress herself.

Film version
Phillip Noyce's film version (1993, screenplay by Joe Eszterhas, who besides wrote Basic Instinct) deviates considerably from either a plot of the book. A movie star Sharon Stone and William Baldwin. the flick requires like a simplistic stance in voyeurism, suggesting that wanting to secretly observe humans & so invading their privacy is part of human nature. Levin's novel, then again, seeks to draw the line between human's unlearned curiosity & pathologic & compulsive behaviour system.