Millennium people
by J. G. Ballard
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When a bomb goes off at Heathrow it looks like just another random act of violence to psychologist David Markham. But then he discovers that his ex-wife Laura is among the victims. Acting on police suspicions, he starts to investigate London's fringe protest movements, falling in with a shadowy group based in the comfortable Thameside estate of Chelsea Marina. Led by a charismatic doctor, the group aims to rouse the docile middle classes to anger and violence, to free them from both the self-imposed burdens of civic responsibility and the trappings of a consumer society – private schools, foreign nannies, health insurance and overpriced housing. Markham, seeking the truth behind Laura's death, is swept up in a campaign that spirals rapidly out of control. Every certainty in his life is questioned as the cornerstones of middle England become targets and growing panic grips the capital...
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Fiction, Protest movements, Psychologists, Political activists, Middle class, Political violence, Literature, Terrorism, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Fiction, political, Great britain, fiction, Crime, fiction, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, psychological, Social changePlaces
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Terroristas do Milênio
Nov 13, 2005, Companhia das Letras
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8535906533 9788535906530
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