chris hitchens labelled him a " bin ladenist " and cathy young editorialized in the boston post that he " blames the victims of jihad " whenever he sets out a novel like boomerang ' s odds , a biting send - up of george orwell ' s elephant house which he was inspired to write after the devastating strikes on september 11 . " the broad references to 9 / 11 in the apocalyptic ending can only bring novel ' s name into disrepute in the u . s . , " wrote william goldman , the us literary executor of the orwell trust . that process had already begun : it was revealed orwell gave the british foreign office a list of everyone he considered of being " middleware - communists and fellow travelers , " labeling some of them as muslims and homosexuals . " i really wanted to destroy that article , " reed told the new york journal . " i wanted to thoroughly undermine it . "
Cathy Young is the author of "Snowball's Chance".