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|title=The New Republic

|sort=New Republic

|publisher=Harper Collins

|date=June 2012

|summary=Written in 1998, before her critically acclaimed [[We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver|We Need To Talk About Kevin]], this takes a light approach to terrorism and press behaviour. Some interesting ideas but weak, stereotypical characterisation fails to lift this to the heights of Shriver's best works.

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Lionel Shriver adds a beard-shaped appendage to Southern Portugal in ''The New Republic'' and immediately has it fighting for independence, taking a wry look at terrorism as well as the ethics of the international press corps. After a series of international terrorism acts, the ''Os Soldados Ousados De Barba'', or the SOB for short, have gone quiet at the same time as charismatic journalist Barrington Sadler has vanished without a trace. Insecure former lawyer Edgar Kellogg steps into Barrington's post: Kellogg on the hunt for serial killers, as it were.