The Unknown Terrorist
(Richard Flanagan)
The Doll is a simple type really. Working nights as a dancer in a small
club in Sydney where the customers are the high rollers and sometimes
the influential kingmakers of the area, her ambitions in life are
limited and realistic. She wants to make and save enough cash to
someday be able to buy her own apartment, a task made infinitely more
difficult given her penchant for shopping as retail therapy and her
tastes in the expensive, ranging from Louis Vuitton to Pravda and
others. She has few friends outside work and a negligible social life
at best.
So when a chance encounter with a foreigner at Sydney's Mardi Gras
leads her to being dubbed one of the most dangerous terrorists in
Australia, suffice it to say this comes as something of a shock to The
Doll. In the beginning, her friend tells her to go to the police to
refute the claim but as she enters the police station and a scuffle
breaks out nearby, she has second thoughts and quickly leaves. Hot on
her trail is an overambitious, washed up journalist, just looking for
the one story that will remake his career.
The streets of her Sydney suburb are not a friendly place at the best
of times and, imbued with the fear of being sought by the police, she
must make difficult decisions about who she can and can not trust. It
is here that a private client of hers plays a major, if somewhat
unwitting part in what will come to be the dramatic finale in which all
the major players come together for a final confrontation. Richard
Flanagan's what-if scenario is aptly timed considering the obsession of
the media with the War on Terror and with Islamic fundamentalists.
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