Britain in the 1970s was a turbulent place to live. Not only were there strikes, the three-day-week, political radicalism, rampant inflation and disco to worry about, but it was also the most violent decade of the twentieth-century in terms of domestic terrorism. As a result, it may come as a surprise to learn that was during this decade that a very unusual trend emerged: novels with terrorists as the main characters. In this talk I look into the history of the "urban guerrilla" terrorist concept, its adoption by left-wingers, right-wingers, Irish nationalists, animal liberationists, and the counterculture. I then look at the swathe of novels written with these characters as protagonists, from dark comedies like "Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry" and "Blott on the Landscape", to thrillers like "Harry's Game" and "Who Killed Enoch Powell?", to adventures like Michael Moorcock's "The Adventures of Una Persson" or Angela Carter's "The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman". It's a journey through some of the stranger fiction to emerge from this rather strange time.