Pygmy

A sleeper agent known only by a code name arrives at a Midwestern American airport and begins a mission. He is one of several teenagers from a repressive state placed with ordinary host families as exchange students, where they are meant to pass unnoticed while preparing a vague but enormous attack. The story follows his view of suburban American life, which is coloured by an unshakable contempt for the people around him. Beneath the dark premise is a sharp satire of fear toward outsiders, one that asks whether that fear is entirely unfounded. The book is both a comedy and a romance.