Loved this. In Brasil we once had a reverse terrorist attack, some military from our fascist government had the brilliant idea of exploding a car and blame it on radical left groups to create more moral panic and make the dictatorship justified. A dumb ass seargent ended up exploding the car while himself was inside, demoralizing our military force even more and ended up speeding our process of returning to a democracy. He probably died a very horrible and painful death because the explosives weren't even strong enough to blow the car into pieces.
Simple is not bad, also a pretty good twist for the time he was writing.
Yes, I know he was a very racist dude.