YMMV / Black Sunday (Thomas Harris)

• Magnificent Bitch: Dahlia Iyad is a high-ranking member of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September, with a lingering hatred of Israel for the deaths of her family. Approached by unstable blimp pilot Michael Lander with a plot to detonate a Flechette Storm bomb at the Super Bowl, Dahlia persuades Black September to finance the plan and co-opts it into a political statement to punish the US for their support of Israel. Dahlia herself keeps Lander stable enough to proceed with the plan and runs interference throughout the film, murdering a Mossad agent and the blimp pilot so that Lander can replace him. When the plan is discovered, Dahlia ensures that Lander is able to get the blimp into the air and holds off cops and FBI agents long enough for him to activate the bomb, nearly causing the deaths of thousands of people.
• Signature Scene: The blimp attacking the stadium.