Overview
A QUEST FOR EXCITEMENT AND ADVENTURE LEADS TO A DARK PLACE The Benevolent Terrorist is a thinking person's adventure story, in the vein of various novels by Graham Greene, Robert Stone, and Patricia Highsmith. It tells the tale of a troubled young American named Jack who's been wandering the world for extended periods on an increasingly desperate quest for excitement and adventure. Jack is traveling with a likable and beautiful Australian woman, who's quickly getting fed up with him. In Athens, they meet a mysterious loner, an ex-Army guy who recently finished working construction in Tunisia. The unlikely trio travels to a Greek island where a romantic triangle develops. Jack's deep desire to escape boredom and his theory of benevolent terrorism - ¼fighting terrorists with terror - lead the two men on a dark and violent adventure. The novel explores with intelligence a number of the disturbing aspects of life and artfully straddles the boundary between commercial and literary ¼fiction. "A fantastic, existentialist thriller with visceral charm...offers a trio of vivid character studies while ¼filling [the narrative] with sinister tension...sharp, philosophical, and occasionally surreal prose."- Kirkus Reviews
- | Author: Danny Wynn
- | Publisher: Bright Lights Big City Books
- | Publication Date: Oct 18, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 246 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0692783458
- | ISBN-13: 9780692783450
