| Record Number |
743189 |
| ISBN |
9780006551614 (paperback) |
| Author |
Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009 author. |
| Title |
Millennium people / J.G. Ballard ; introduction by Iain Sinclair. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : Fourth Estate, 2014. |
| ©2003 |
| Pagination etc. |
xix, 298 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Contents note |
Interview by Vanora Bennett, 2014. |
| First published in Great Britain by Flamingo in 2003. |
| Summary Note |
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 ... |
| Subject |
Psychologists -- Fiction |
| Political activists -- Fiction |
| Political violence -- Fiction |
| Middle class -- Great Britain -- Fiction |
| Protest movements -- Fiction |
| Thrillers (Fiction) |
| Added Author |
Sinclair, Iain, 1943- author of introduction, etc. |
| Bennett, Vanora, 1962- interviewer. |
| Shelf Location |
F BALL |
