Academic

"Is that fiction or non-fiction?"

By Tung Yin

So asked my wife upon seeing me with a copy of Jessica Stern's The Ultimate Terrorists.

This is a totally reasonable question, since these days, it seems like most of the books that I've been reading are about terrorism, fiction as well as non-fiction.  (I did make a slight detour for another one of those "what could possibly go wrong?" techno-science thrillers . . . Ancestor by Scott Sigler.)

Stern, a terrorism expert, was supposedly the role model for Nicole Kidman's nuclear physicist character (Julia Kelly) in the 1997 thriller The Peacemaker.

Full post as published by The Yin Blog on February 13, 2011 (boomark / email).