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Millennium people

  • 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...

Genres

  • 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 change
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About the author

  • J. G. Ballard

    15 November 1930 - 19 April 2009

    3.43

    51 ratings · 270 works

Editions

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    Companhia das Letras

    Nov 13, 2005

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    Singel Uitgevers

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    1st American ed.

    W.W. Norton & Co.

    2011

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    FLAMINGO

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Flamingo

2003

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    HarperCollins

    2010

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    Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

    2011

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    Liveright Pub.

    2012

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    QPD

    2003