I Love the Bomb: A Novel

What do you call the thing you love when it is already falling? Milo Dorne has lived three versions of the same disaster. In one world, he is a scholarship student who fails an exam by writing the most dangerous answer in the room. In another, he is a reckless romantic who calls Amara Bell "the bomb" and learns too late that metaphors have shrapnel. In a third, he is a reluctant soldier waiting under an American strike no one will admit is a mistake. Above him circles Blue Orchard, a precision weapon sold as mercy by PaxMantic Systems-a defense contractor fluent in patriotism, profit, and plausible deniability. As a targeting algorithm begins connecting student debt, dating profiles, university records, and battlefield intelligence, one man becomes a lover, a failure, a suspect, and a target. Darkly funny, romantic, and ferociously anti-war, I Love the Bomb is a multiverse literary thriller about a country's love language, a woman who refuses to be anyone's symbol, and the machinery that turns ordinary desire into extraordinary violence. Love story. War story. Targeting error.