A Dancing Bear

by David Free

What if getting the girl meant becoming a terrorist wet boy? On an unnamed university campus late in the 20th century, a young man named Fenton Bland joins a society of student Maoists in order to get near the girl he loves. But the girl turns out to belong to the chief Maoist - and HE turns out to harbor alarming aspirations in the field of revolutionary terror. And so Fenton, wearing a forcibly grown beard, finds himself propelled into a bizarre covert world of death lists, backyard bomb labs, untraceable handguns, and attempted wet jobs of wildly varying quality - a world in which he must choose between losing the girl forever or else participating, perhaps very soon, in a successful terrorist atrocity ...

328 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Douglas Smith · Rating 3 out of 5]

Enjoyable and zany. I laughed out loud several times especially at his living situation and the description of his relationship with his room mates. Fun.