John Updike's "Terrorist"

No, the author of "Rabbit" series, is not a "terrorist" and has nothing to do with "terrorism", but this is the title of his recent novel, where he tried to explore the reasons that push someone to be a "terrorist". In this recent article, The New York Times consideres Updike's "Terrorist" as a "maladroit novel" adding that

Unfortunately, the would-be terrorist in this novel turns out to be a completely unbelievable individual: more robot than human being and such a cliché that the reader cannot help suspecting that Mr. Updike found the idea of such a person so incomprehensible that he at some point abandoned any earnest attempt to depict his inner life and settled instead for giving us a static, one-dimensional stereotype.