I find this odd...

... but not that odd. Steve Clackson has a post about Getting a Terrorist Thriller Published. According to literary agent Jean Naggar, "It’s going to take a blockbuster with a terrorist theme ... to shift the industry, much like The DaVinci Code did for escapist, religious themes. Then they’ll flock like lemmings.” But someone had to publish The Da Vinci Code for that to happen. And that book isn't even any good. So, by Naggar's logic - which I actually think is sound - a lousy terrorist thriller that gets the right kind of publicity should do the trick. Hmm. Let's see. It would have to, however clunkily, turn the whole terrorist thing on its head (as The Da V Code did Christianity with a married Jesus). Well, given the endless stream of nitwit Bush-bashing screeds - to which publishers have certainly flocked like lemmings - this may be it: Our thriller shows how it was Bush & Co. who actually hired the 9/11 hijackers! The horror! The horror!