 The Good Terrorist is a 1985 political novel by Doris Lessing . It was first published in September 1985 in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape , and in the United States by Alfred A. <unk> . The story examines events in the life of Alice , a <unk> and well @-@ <unk> <unk> , who moves in with a group of radicals in London , and is drawn into their terrorist activities . 
