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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A bomb is more than a weapon. A bomb is an expression of the bomber's thoughts about you, his predictions of your behavior--a performance designed to fool you into making one fatally wrong move. In The Bomb Maker, Edgar Award-winning author Thomas Perry introduces us to the dark corners of a mind intent on transforming a simple machine into an act of murder--and to those committed to preventing that outcome at any cost. A threat is called into the...
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Language
English
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"A haunting account of the sixteen years when a young Jamie Gehring and her family lived closer than anyone to Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. As a child in Lincoln, Montana, Jamie Gehring and her family shared their land, their home, and their dinner table with a hermit with a penchant for murder. But they had no idea that the odd recluse living in the adjacent cabin was anything more than a disheveled man who brought young Jamie painted rocks as gifts....
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
" ... suicide bombing has played a significant role in terrorist activity ... examination of the psychology behind suicide bombing ... Interviews with an Israeli Army senior intelligence analyst, a kamikaze pilot survivor, two failed suicide bombers, and several victims ... "--Container.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In August 1995 David Kaczynski's wife Linda asked him a difficult question: "Do you think your brother Ted is the Unabomber?" He couldn't be, David thought. But as the couple pored over the Unabomber's seventy-eight-page manifesto, David couldn't rule out the possibility. It slowly became clear to them that Ted was likely responsible for mailing the seventeen bombs that killed three people and injured many more. Wanting to prevent further violence,...
Author
Series
David Gold novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Someone is setting off fire bombs in Chicago in stolen cars using untraceable cell phones. The international terror channels are silent. A group calling itself the Islamic Freedom Federation demands the release of Hassan Al-Shahid, a graduate student whose plan to set off a bomb at the Art Institute was thwarted by Detective David Gold and his long-time partner, Detective Paul Liszewski. Gold, a third generation native of South Chicago, the hardscrabble...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Between 1940 and 1957, thirty-three bombs, strategically placed in Grand Central Terminal, Penn Station, Radio City Music Hall, Macy's, and other crowded areas of New York, paralyzed the city, sending shockwaves of fear through the public.
George Metesky, the "Mad Bomber," unleashed a reign of terror that reverberated through America's social, legal, and political landscape, ultimately spurring the birth of modern criminal profiling when a psychiatrist...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Gabriella Mallory, AP student and perfect-daughter-in-training, stands barefoot on a public toilet for three hours while her school is on lockdown. Someone has planted a bomb and she is hiding. The bomb is defused but the would-be-bomber is still at large. And everyone at Central High School is a suspect. The school starts a top-secret crisis help line and Gabi is invited to join. When she does, she is drawn into a suspenseful game of cat and mouse...
11) A common man
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Ben Kingsley stars as a seemingly average citizen who plants five powerful bombs in different locations around a major city and threatens to detonate them unless his demand is met: The release of four of the most deadly international terrorists from government prisons. But in an urban jungle already torn apart by fear, what could be the real motive behind a cunning madman's ultimate plan? Ben Cross co-stars in this explosive action-thriller about...
12) Cleanskin
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A British Secret Service Agent must take out a suicide bomber and his terrorist cell before they can create more trouble in the city of London.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
At 2:50 pm on April 15, 2013, two bomb blasts turned the Boston Marathon finish line from a scene of triumph into a scene of tragedy, and a city gripped by heartbreak and terror. Less than five days later, the key suspects were identified and apprehended; one dead, the other in custody. How did investigators transform the chaos of the bombing into a coherent trail of clues, pointing to the accused killers?
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
As told by the three FBI agents who led the chase, this is the story of how the FBI broke its own rules, blasting away the layers of bureaucratic constraints that had plagued earlier efforts, to catch the notorious Unabomber and end his 16-year trail of terrorism.--Publisher.
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