Intertextuality and the Literary Response to Terrorism in Ian McEwan's Saturday by Paul Pugliese

This thesis reads Ian McEwan's Saturday not just as a response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, but also a response to Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. It investigates how we respond to terror in the modern world--and how the interpersonal and intrapersonal responses of Woolf and McEwan modulate that response.

Reamde by Neal Stephenson

This book is a long, exciting spy and technology thriller. It starts with a virus launched against users of T'Rain, a game designed to make certain types of money-laundering possible. But when the virus hits the wrong users, it quickly involves the main characters in the global war on terror. The book is fast paced and it skillfully balances a wide cast of characters. There's some weird chivalry on the part of some of the characters, but otherwise I really enjoyed reading this story.