John Updike – Terrorist

Cover design for Terrorist by John Updike. The novel explores the intense themes of identity, faith, and cultural conflict in post-9/11 America through the psyche of Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, an 18-year-old Muslim-American of mixed Egyptian and Irish descent. As he struggles with his identity, he becomes increasingly drawn into Islamic extremism.

“Photographer Adrian Wilson generously allowed me to use one of his remarkable aerial crowd montages for the cover, over which I added a series of white graphic circles – evoking both a target and a sense of radiation – to underline the novel’s atmosphere of surveillance, threat and alienation.”


Discipline

Graphic Design
Illustration

Photographer

Adrian Wilson

Client

Politikens Forlag

Year

2007

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