The Incendiaries is a fractured love story and a brilliant examination of the minds of extremist terrorists, and of what can happen to people who lose what they love most. Will devotes himself to finding her, tilting into obsession himself, seeking answers to what happened to Phoebe and if she could have been responsible for this violent act. When the group bombs several buildings in the name of faith, killing five people, Phoebe disappears. Meanwhile, Will struggles to confront the fundamentalism he's tried to escape, and the obsession consuming the one he loves. He has an enigmatic past that involves North Korea and Phoebe's Korean American family. Grieving and guilt-ridden, Phoebe is increasingly drawn into a religious group-a secretive extremist cult-founded by a charismatic former student, John Leal. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college, waiting tables to get by. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn't tell anyone she blames herself for her mother's recent death. Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet their first month at prestigious Edwards University. A powerful, darkly glittering novel of violence, love, faith, and loss, as a young woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult tied to North Korea.
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