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"""Inspiring, disturbing, and triumphant."" -- FOREWORD Embedded with an eco-terrorist group hellbent on explosive direct action, investigative journalist Owen Graham is enmeshed in a dangerous culture on the political fringe. Ordinary citizens, frustrated by inequality and oppression and a bureaucracy's resistance to change, are starting to go off the grid and disrupt the status quo. But the fringe is poised to go mainstream, and Owen's days as a passive observer are running short. While a series of escalating misunderstandings land an idealistic public school teacher in the middle of a hostage situation and the sights of an overeager federal agent who has been trailing Owen for months, he intervenes in a desperate split-second decision. Owen's old life is gone forever. Now he's on the run with a trio of fellow crusaders, all fighting for a better world but now labeled as terrorists by the government. Disparate people on all sides, each convinced they're right - and doing the right thing -- are now spinning towards each other in an inexorable spiral of violence. AMERICAN TERRORIST is a high-speed chase across the country in search of radical solutions to injustice, inspiring a movement that may be snuffed out before it starts."

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"""An absorbing graphic novel that is, by turns, inspiring, disturbing, and triumphant."" - FOREWORD"

FOREWORD REVIEWS -- American Terrorist probes the line between concerned citizen and criminal, addressing real-life political problems including corporate pollution, racial inequality, and access to health care. Owen, a journalist, and Hannah, a teacher, are on the run. Owen killed a government agent; Hannah created a hostage situation at an insurance company. Neither action was planned. The duo is brought together and swept up in chaos and controversy regardless, and a variety of groups become involved in helping them or hunting them down. As Owen and Hannah continue to break the law for what they see as good reasons, they also refuse to surrender to government agents. Their story is provocative and thoughtful, leaving questions of right and wrong open to interpretation. Its complex characters are made interesting through their contradictions and self-doubts. Hannah has an unspecified mental illness, and her behavior veers toward the erratic without her medication. And although the government agent Owen kills is portrayed as overeager, even arrogant, his family's loss is depicted in a poignant, memorable scene. The book's art is rife with realistic details, including websites and television broadcasts that could pass for screenshots, and convincing landscapes and cityscapes across the book's many changes of setting. However, some characters' faces resemble those of others, leading to confusion, though their different hairstyles, colors, and clothing are better up to representing their distinctions. The book's ending is both shocking and logical, given the story's development. Sure to generate interest and debate, it provides closure while also leaving some tantalizing elements unresolved. American Terrorist is an absorbing graphic novel that is, by turns, inspiring, disturbing, and triumphant.

An absorbing graphic novel that is, by turns, inspiring, disturbing, and triumphant. - FOREWORD

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