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Millennium People
''Millennium People'' is a novel by J. G. Ballard published in 2003.〔http://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/oct/05/fiction.jgballard〕 The novel is the story of a rebellion in the middle classes in an enclave of Greater London.
==Plot==
When a bomb explodes on a baggage carousel at Heathrow Airport, killing his ex-wife, David Markham〔http://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/oct/05/fiction.jgballard〕 tries to unravel the mystery surrounding her seemingly pointless death.〔http://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/sep/20/fiction.jgballard〕 But with unresolved questions about himself, his job, and his loving but adulterous wife, he soon finds himself immersed in the deeper waters of middle-class revolution originating from the gated community of Chelsea Marina.〔http://www.salon.com/2011/07/10/millenium_people_jg_ballard/〕
When a protest at a cat show turns ugly and he is beaten up by angry cat lovers, then arrested and tried, Markham enlists in the cause of the rebellious Chelseans – imagining he will uncover the persons and causes responsible for his ex-wife's murder. Slowly, he succumbs to the call of subversion and gradually finds himself a terrorist functionary. Along the way, we meet an assortment of wonderfully ballardian characters: Markham's wife, who continues to use her arm canes though her leg injuries from an accident with a tram have completely healed; a sociopathic college film studies lecturer-terrorist cell leader who takes Markham for a lover; a troubled priest and his Chinese girlfriend; a former MI5 bombmaker turned revolutionary and a kindly pediatrician cum terrorist mastermind. Ultimately, Markham learns the reasons behind his former wife's murder have a very different logic than he had imagined.
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