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An Accidental Terrorist by Steven Lang

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May 2006, no. 281

An Accidental Terrorist by Steven Lang

UQP, $22.95 pb, 330 pp

An Accidental Terrorist by Steven Lang

by
May 2006, no. 281

Steven Lang has a fine sense of the Australian vernacular and creates believable characters. This novel forges a new genre (maybe it’s just new to me): the environmental thriller. Protagonist Kelvin was a street kid and rent-boy in Kings Cross. Now twenty-one and beautiful, he fetches up, after years of aimless drifting and casual work in remote locations, in his home town of Eden, which he fled eight years before. He joins the labourers setting up a commercial pine plantation after the area has been clear-felled, but then becomes involved with a group of hippies who live on a commune – ‘the farm’. Here he falls easily into a sexual relationship with Jessica, an environmental activist and writer. She is older, educated and politically sophisticated, in a way that engages Kelvin’s imagination but compels him to hide his past.

An Accidental Terrorist

An Accidental Terrorist

by Steven Lang

UQP, $22.95 pb, 330 pp

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