A Dancing Bear

What if getting the girl meant becoming a terrorist wet boy? On an unnamed university campus late in the 20th century a young man named Fenton Bland joins a society of student Maoists in order to get near the girl he loves. But the girl turns out to belong to the chief Maoist - and HE turns out to harbor alarming aspirations in the field of revolutionary terror. And so Fenton wearing a forcibly grown beard finds himself propelled into a bizarre covert world of death lists backyard bomb labs untraceable handguns and attempted wet jobs of wildly varying quality - a world in which he must choose between losing the girl forever or else participating perhaps very soon in a successful terrorist atrocity ...