![]() ![]() With their careful screening and preparation, they limit collateral damage, body counts, and the likelihood of cold feet. Equally cool is the matter-of-fact reveal that Britta and her gay Iraqi partner, Babak, run an agency out of Braunschweig that provides candidates for any sort of suicide bombing required by activists/terrorists from Greenpeace to the Islamic State group. ![]() “It’s been years since anyone has known what to think,” Britta thinks in one of the novel’s many cool Didion-esque apercus. ![]() It’s some eight years since Angela Merkel resigned, and Germany’s government is controlled by the Concerned Citizens’ Crusade, a conservative group that is “dismantling one hard-won democratic achievement after the other.” But in liberal circles like Britta’s, there is only dinner-party protest and numbed acceptance. In the near future, a German woman finds a way to make money from terrorism, but a rival may be gunning for her business in this darkly entertaining work. ![]()
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