Millennium People

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Violent rebellion comes to London's middle classes in the extraordinary new novel from the author of 'Cocaine Nights' and 'Super-Cannes'. When a bomb goes off at Heathrow it looks like just another random act of violence to psychologist David Markham. But then he discovers that his ex-wife Laura is among the victims. Acting on police suspicions, he starts to investigate London's fringe protest movements, falling in with a shadowy group based in the comfortable Thameside estate of Chelsea Marina. Led by a charismatic doctor, the group aims to rouse the docile middle classes to anger and violence, to free them from both the self-imposed burdens of civic responsibility and the trappings of a consumer society -- private schools, foreign nannies, health insurance and overpriced housing. Markham, seeking the truth behind Laura's death, is swept up in a campaign that spirals rapidly out of control. Every certainty in his life is questioned as the cornerstones of middle England become targets and growing panic grips the capital! J G BALLARD......Page 1 1 - The Rebellion at Chelsea Marina......Page 2 2 - The Heathrow Bomb......Page 8 3 - ‘Why Me?’......Page 13 4 - The Last Rival......Page 17 5 - Confrontation at Olympia......Page 20 BookmarkTitle:......Page 25 7 - Odd Man Out......Page 28 ‘The Third World gains something......Page 32 BookmarkTitle:......Page 34 9 - The Upholstered Apocalypse......Page 38 10 - Appointment with a Revolution......Page 42 11 - The Heart of Darkness......Page 48 12 - The Video Store......Page 54 13 - A Neuroscientist Looks at God......Page 57 14 - From Guildford to Terminal 2......Page 62 15 - The Depot of Dreams......Page 67 16 - The Children’s Sanctuary......Page 73 17 - Absolute Zero......Page 78 18 - Black Millennium......Page 82 19 - The Siege of Broadcasting House......Page 86 20 - White Space......Page 93 21 - The Kindness of Light......Page 97 22 - A Visit to the Bunker......Page 104 23 - The Last Stranger......Page 110 24 - The Defence of Grosvenor Place......Page 113 25 A Celebrity Murder......Page 120 26 - A Wife’s Concern......Page 124 27 - The Bonfire of the Volvos......Page 128 28 - Vital Clues......Page 134 29 - The Long-term Car Park......Page 137 30 - Amateurs and Revolutions......Page 140 31 -The Sentimental Terrorist......Page 147 32 - A Decline in Property Values......Page 151 ‘Win a House in Chelsea Marina.’......Page 154 33 - Giving Himself to the Sun......Page 156 34 - A Task Completed......Page 162 35 - A Sun Without Shadows......Page 165