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As the twenty-first century gets into its second 10 years, international wars, the lingering recession, and a caustic politics environment are taking their toll on People in the usa. But the party hasn't finished for Aidan Cole and his friends, a group of savvy, if cynical, NY journalists and bloggers who prosper at the intersection of mass media and super star. At wine-sodden meal functions or in dimly lit downtown bars, their frenetic talk-of scoops and webpage views, sexual activities, and trendy restaurants-continues unabated. Then, without warning, the specter of terrorism reenters their lives. A bomb rips through the deserted floor of a midtown office tower. Middle Eastern terrorists are immediately suspected. But four days later, without arrests and a city on border, an anonymous e-mail occurs in Aidan's in-box. Attached is the photograph of attractive, young white woman, along with a chilling subject matter: "This is Paige Roderick. She's the one responsible."So commences an extraordinary trip in to the dark spirit of modern America-from a back-to-the-land community in the Smoky Mountains to a Weather Underground-like bomb stock in Vermont; from Fishers Island, isolated getaway of the wealthy top notch, to the hip lofts of Manhattan's Meatpacking Area. American Subversive is David Goodwillie's well-defined and penetrating undertake the paranoia of our own times-and its real, untold problems. In examining the connection between our collective apathy and the roots of insurrection, Goodwillie has made an intoxicating history of two young People in the usa grasping for a foothold in a culture-and a country-that's crumbling around them.With this debut novel, Goodwillie announces himself as a major new words in American fiction. Expertly written, relentlessly suspenseful, and bitingly funny, American Subversive is both an unnervingly genuine tale of home terrorism and a properly observed portrait of Manhattan in the digital time.
