Incendiary by Chris Cleave

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When a massive suicide bomb explodes at a London soccer match a woman loses both her four-year-old son and her husband. But the bombing is only the beginning. In a voice alive with grief, compassion, and startling humor, Incendiary is a stunning debut of one ordinary life blown apart by... read more

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Osama: The whole content of the book is written, as though a letter, to Osama Bin Laden.
Jasper Black: Jasper Black is an upper class man whose life spirals out of control after the suicide bomb.
Terence Butcher: what a doofus
Mr Rabbit: Mr Rabbit it the sons toy bear
Petra Sutherland: Petra is Jasper Black's high maintenance girlfriend.
Mena: very sweet and compassionate,
Mummy: What the main character's son calls her.
Prince William: None other than THE Prince William
Di: Princess of Wales

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Dear Osama they want you dead or alive so the terror will stop.

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Summer
Autumn
Winter

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Chris Cleave (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Bond Street Books
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: August 5, 2005
ISBN: 978-0385661706
Page Count: 256

Awards edit see section history

Somerset Maugham Award (2006)
Commonwealth Writers Prize (2006)
The United States Book-of-the-Month Club’s First Fiction (2005, #1)

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Dewey: 813.6

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Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers
Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

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