This reading therefore stands in opposition to conventional perspectives that identify an inherent conservatism in a genre that relies to a large degree on linearity—the deferred but ultimately guaranteed revelation of secrets—and that pits the agents of the nation-state against forces that often have apocalyptic designs on its citizens, drawing the reader into an imaginative complicity that in the war-on-terror context is often overtly Islamophobic.

XREF: Connects to debates about the ideological politics of genre fiction, particularly the thriller/novel of revelation and its relationship to post-9/11 state power.

Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, loc. 315