Frantic Planet

As a terrorist attack on the capital leaves a wounded nation unified in panic and collectively grieving for an infant killed in the blast one man finds his own way of coping with the sudden sense of isolation. Meanwhile a disparate group of damaged D-listers undertake a last-ditch journey to reinvent themselves and shake loose the labels that define them. Millard's incendiary follow-up to 2006's first volume is a book of fame and identity obsession and social shame and of people who feel increasingly distant in a world that grows smaller by the day.