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by Ballard, J. G. | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Published 07/06/2004 by HarperCollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom Paperback | 320 pages195 x 131 x 20mm | 224gViolent rebellion comes to London’s middle classes. Like every obedient professional, I arrived punctually for my appointment with a revolution. When a bomb explosion at Heathrow airport kills psychologist David Markham’s ex-wife, he sets out on a journey to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding her death. As he infiltrates a shadowy group of middle-class revolutionaries based in the comfortable Chelsea Marina, Markham soon finds himself swept up in a bourgeois insurrection that is sending the capital into panic. Show more