The explosive J. G. Ballard renaissance, which began with the 2009 publication of The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard , now continues with his first novel to be published in America in a full decade. "Wonderfully warped, darkly comic" ( The Economist ), Millennium People tells the story of David Markham, a psychologist who is searching for the truth behind a bomb that exploded on a Heathrow baggage carousel, killing his ex-wife. Infiltrating a shadowy protest group responsible for her death, David finds himself succumbing to the charismatic charms of the group's leader, who hopes to foment a violent rebellion against the government by his fanatical adherents, the spiritually and financially impoverished members of Britain's white middle class. A shockingly plausible and extremely unsettling vision of society in collapse, Millennium People "dissects the perverse psychology that links terrorists with their innocent victims" ( New Statesman ).