num_pages: 182
description: A war-ravaged Beirut is the setting for the title story of this visionary collection, a tale in which a young street fighter inadvertently discovers how to bring an to the bloodshed only to find that his solution is all too effective as far as some supposedly neutral observers are concerned. Other stories feature an assassination plot against an American astronaut, the leader of an authoritarian religious movement; a man who is destroyed by a car crash and resolves never to leave his apartment again; and the survivor of a toxic-waste ship wrecked on a deserted Caribbean island.
language: English
title: War Fever
titlecomplete: War Fever
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, British Literature, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Collections, Literature, Short Stories
ratings_count: 514
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux