In his extraordinary & highly charged new novel, John Updike tackles one of America`s most burning issues
- the threat of Islamist terror from within. Set in contemporary New Jersey, Terrorist traces the journey of one young man, from radicalism to fundamentalism to terrorism, against the backdrop of a fraying urban landscape & an increasingly fragmented community. In beautiful prose, Updike dramatizes the logic of the fundamentalist terrorist
- but also suggests ways in which we can counter it, in our words & our actions.. .