{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "A distraught woman writes a letter to Osama bin Laden after her four-year-old son and her husband are killed in a massive suicide bomb attack at a soccer match in London. She tries to convince Osama to abandon his terror campaign by revealing to him the desperate sadness - \"I am a woman built on the wreckage of myself\"--And the broken heart of a working-class life blown apart. But the bombing is only the beginning. While security measures transform London into a virtual occupied territory, the narrator, too, finds herself under siege. At first she gains strength by fighting back, taking a civilian job with the police to aid the antiterrorist effort. But when she becomes involved with an upper-class couple, she is drawn into a psychological maelstrom of guilt, ambition, and cynicism that erodes her faith in the society she's working to defend. And when a new bomb threat sends the city into a deadly panic she is pushed to acts of unfathomable desperation - perhaps her only chance for survival."}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2020-08-20T21:58:09.587955"}, "title": "Incendiary", "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2020-07-24T05:47:50.197998"}, "covers": [10307911], "subject_places": ["England", "London", "East End (London, England)", "East End"], "subjects": ["Terrorism", "Working class families", "Terrorism victims' families", "Fiction", "London (england), fiction", "Fiction, psychological", "Widows, fiction", "Terrorism, fiction"], "latest_revision": 2, "key": "/works/OL20940564W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL7654449A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "revision": 2}