num_pages: 192
description: The controversial novel about food, love, and terrorism.Somewhere in the Middle East, an aspiring terrorist has been entrusted with a mission that will reverberate around the to deliver a bomb to a hotel in Beirut, where the detonation will destroy hundreds of innocent lives. If he remains true to his cause, he will bring about his own death. Yet life holds such tantalizing food (his secret vice), the heady pleasures of bicycle racing, the joys of unexpected love. As the days count down to the final, chilling moment of reckoning, this angst-ridden gourmand ponders his existential quandary -- with horrifying and hilarious results. A slyly subversive novel about a food-fixated terrorist who dreams of liberation through a world of eroticism and sensuality, The Cyclist combines humor and edgy lyricism to tell a provocative,page-turning tale of individual freedom and political violence.
language: English
title: The Cyclist
titlecomplete: The Cyclist
genres: Fiction, Novels
ratings_count: 291
publisher: Simon & Schuster