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Terrorists stalk London and, guess what? They're a pretty pathetic lot. Yet somehow their patheticness makes them more frightening because it makes them more human. These aren't omniscient supercriminals but sad and mostly ordinary men whose roles as self-appointed agents of violent social change make them feel important and superior to the oblivious peons around them (and thus able to ignore or dismiss the damage they do to them). Conrad's story about a terrorist plot to blow up the Greenwich O
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After three false starts, I finally found myself able to immerse myself in this tale. Once I got through the first two chapters, I found my interest piqued and lost myself in a well crafted story.
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