Booming Business
Susan Choi’s novel is inspired by the Unabomber’s story
James Gibbons
A Person of Interest:
A Novel
by Susan Choi
Viking Adult
$24.95 List Price
Opening with a deadly explosion and culminating in a tense FBI raid to capture a homegrown terrorist in the mountains of northern Idaho, Susan Choi’s third novel, A Person of Interest, can readily be called cinematic—specifically, it reads as a blueprint for a Hollywood thriller. It is, as they say in the trailers, “inspired by true events”: Choi has transmuted the case of the so-called Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski, into
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