The Democratic Terrorist

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The democratic Terrorist (Swedish: Den demokratiske terroristen) is a spy novel by Swedish author Jan Guillou, the second book featuring the fictional spy Carl Hamilton.

Hamilton is assigned to infiltrate a terrorist group in West Germany, a part of the Red Army Faction (RAF), that supposedly are planning an operation in Sweden. Hamilton is chosen because of his background in the leftist movement. As a member of the group, he takes part in bank robberies — the preferred way of the RAF to finance their operations. In the end, when all terrorists are in one place, he leads the German Counter-terrorism unit GSG 9 to the location.

He plays his role so well that he is identifying himself with the terrorists, and briefly is not far from fighting with the terrorists, but in the end, ends up shooting his terrorist "girlfriend", before she shoot another "fake terrorist" who later gets killed by the GSG-9. Nevertheless, for his help, he received the West German medal Badge of Honour of the Bundeswehr.