A deadly explosion in Heathrow's baggage area tears apart the carousels killing passengers and shutting down Heathrow. David Markham late for his business flight, catch’s a newsfeed close-up of a well dressed woman. Dazed and bloody she’s slouched in smoky wreckage. Markham jolts with surprised dread  - it’s Laura, his ex-wife. She’s been killed in the bombing. Plagued by guilt, his current wife urges him to help authorities by infiltrating a newly formed revolutionary group suspected of the bombing.

Markham is a psychologist and seems perfectly trained for this grim task. He must get close to the leader, Dr. Richard Gould, charismatic, possibly dangerous. Gould successfully radicalized home owners of an exclusive housing estate. Embracing his zeal, they are now burning their homes, quitting their jobs and foraging stores in suburban London. But Gould is bored with that, enlisting David Markham as his latest disciple for creating extreme chaos for all of England.
Gould’s mesmerizing personality pits Markham’s basest blood lust against his civilized principles, stretching his moral decency to the thinnest edge.

I wrestled with this book, disliking characters for the honesty of their behaviors and subsequent actions but not wanting to stop reading it either. Ballard’s book is intense and challenging in the purest ways of fiction. --Marilyn S.

Millennium People (Hardcover)

By J. G. Ballard

$25.95

ISBN-13: 9780393081770
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 7/2011

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