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A distraught woman writes a letter to Osama bin Laden after her four-year-old son and her husband are killed in a massive suicide bomb attack at a soccer match in London. She tries to convince Osama to abandon his terror campaign by revealing to him the desperate sadness - "I am a woman built on the wreckage of myself"--And the broken heart of a working-class life blown apart. But the bombing is only the beginning. While security measures transform London into a virtual occupied territory, the narrator, too, finds herself under siege. At first she gains strength by fighting back, taking a civilian job with the police to aid the antiterrorist effort. But when she becomes involved with an upper-class couple, she is drawn into a psychological maelstrom of guilt, ambition, and cynicism that erodes her faith in the society she's working to defend. And when a new bomb threat sends the city into a deadly panic she is pushed to acts of unfathomable desperation - perhaps her only chance for survival.
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Incendiary, Chris Cleave
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2009
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- Titel
- Incendiary
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Chris Cleave
- Verlag
- Sceptre
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2009
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 340
- ISBN10
- 0340998482
- ISBN13
- 9780340998489
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Romantik, Familie, Gegenwartsliteratur, Zeitgenössische Liebesromane, Morde, Tod, England, Sexualität & Intimität, Großbritannien, London, Trauer, Briefe, Mamas, Terrorismus, Grausamkeit, Terror, Angriffe
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2005
- Originaltitel
- Incendiary
- Bewertung
- 3,6 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- A distraught woman writes a letter to Osama bin Laden after her four-year-old son and her husband are killed in a massive suicide bomb attack at a soccer match in London. She tries to convince Osama to abandon his terror campaign by revealing to him the desperate sadness - "I am a woman built on the wreckage of myself"--And the broken heart of a working-class life blown apart. But the bombing is only the beginning. While security measures transform London into a virtual occupied territory, the narrator, too, finds herself under siege. At first she gains strength by fighting back, taking a civilian job with the police to aid the antiterrorist effort. But when she becomes involved with an upper-class couple, she is drawn into a psychological maelstrom of guilt, ambition, and cynicism that erodes her faith in the society she's working to defend. And when a new bomb threat sends the city into a deadly panic she is pushed to acts of unfathomable desperation - perhaps her only chance for survival.