This book discusses British novels published during the 1970s which feature terrorists either
as main characters or a major plot points. The focus on terrorism's literary depiction provides
insight into the politics of the decade. The book analyses texts from Gerald Seymour Anthony
Burgess V.S. Naipaul Graham Greene Doris Lessing B.S. Johnson Tom Sharpe and Eric Ambler
among others in order to engage with the IRA the end of Empire counterculture and
environmentalism. The book provides a brief history of terrorism as a concept and tactic before
discussing British literature's relationship with terrorism. It presents a standard terrorist
morphology by which to analyse terrorist narratives along with other insights into the British
post-war imagination writing and extremism.
