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Terrorist
Aug 18, 2025 3:44 PM

Author:John Updike

Terrorist

In his extraordinary and 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 and 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 and our actions . . .

Reviews

'The only writer, English or American, with the guts to take on the modern world in all its terrifying complexity'

—— The Week

'This is fiction on a grand and ambitious scale...inspires sensations of terror, nausea, bemusement and exhilaration'

—— Daily Telegraph

A comedy of manners ... charmingly told.

—— Financial Times

One to watch.

—— Image Magazine, Ireland

This fast paced debut gives us the age-old dilemma of family struggle told in frank funny language by a new name to watch.

—— Nottingham Evening Post

A gritty, sharp, social comedy. Like Monica Ali's Brick Lane, but funnier.

—— Elle Magazine

A delightful first novel about a young Indian called Mousumi visiting her sophisticated relations in London ... A coming-of-age story with a difference.

—— Oxford Times

Hugely gratifying in the way that only Cooper can be

—— Mail on Sunday

Triumphantly good

—— The Sunday Times

The prospect of Jilly's return, with a novel set in the glamorous international art world and promising "oodles of bad behaviour, intrigue, passion, tears and laughter", will surely cheer all but the most misanthropic

—— Bookseller

There is enough plot for several novels here (enough sex for dozens), all vividly conveyed in the author's excitable style... Her many fans will not be disappointed

—— Literary Review

This modern day mythical fantasy is Anne Rice on an epic scale, a hugely imagined world. A chiller thriller from cold of Russia, this one's been selling like hot cakes around the world

—— Sunday Sport
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