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Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism
Written by George Weigel
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $13.00
With an unsettled Middle East, al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups actively plotting against America and its allies, and spillover from religious conflict in Muslim countries spreading instability and violence worldwide, George Weigel’s Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism is an acute analysis of one of the most dynamic forces in... Read more >
Written by George Weigel
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $13.00
With an unsettled Middle East, al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups actively plotting against America and its allies, and spillover from religious conflict in Muslim countries spreading instability and violence worldwide, George Weigel’s Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism is an acute analysis of one of the most dynamic forces in... Read more >
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Defend the Realm
The Authorized History of MI5
Written by Christopher Andrew
Format: Hardcover, 1056 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $40.00
An unprecedented publishing event: to mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives to an independent historian. The book reveals the precise role of the Security Service in twentieth-century British history, from its foundation by Captain Kell of the British... Read more >
The Authorized History of MI5
Written by Christopher Andrew
Format: Hardcover, 1056 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $40.00
An unprecedented publishing event: to mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives to an independent historian. The book reveals the precise role of the Security Service in twentieth-century British history, from its foundation by Captain Kell of the British... Read more >
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Defend the Realm
The Authorized History of MI5
Written by Christopher Andrew
Format: eBook, 1056 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $40.00
An unprecedented publishing event: to mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives to an independent historian. The book reveals the precise role of the Security Service in twentieth-century British history, from its foundation by Captain Kell of the British... Read more >
The Authorized History of MI5
Written by Christopher Andrew
Format: eBook, 1056 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $40.00
An unprecedented publishing event: to mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives to an independent historian. The book reveals the precise role of the Security Service in twentieth-century British history, from its foundation by Captain Kell of the British... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
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Defend the Realm
The Authorized History of MI5
Written by Christopher Andrew
Read by Robin Sachs
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $37.50
An unprecedented publishing event: to mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives to an independent historian. The book reveals the precise role of the Security Service in twentieth-century British history, from its foundation by Captain Kell of the British... Read more >
The Authorized History of MI5
Written by Christopher Andrew
Read by Robin Sachs
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $37.50
An unprecedented publishing event: to mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives to an independent historian. The book reveals the precise role of the Security Service in twentieth-century British history, from its foundation by Captain Kell of the British... Read more >
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Half the Sky
Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Written by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $27.95
From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.
With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia... Read more >
Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Written by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $27.95
From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.
With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Half the Sky
Written by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $27.95
From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.
With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia... Read more >
Written by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $27.95
From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.
With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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In the President's Secret Service
Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect
Written by Ronald Kessler
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $26.00
Never before has a journalist penetrated the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret Service, that elite corps of agents who pledge to take a bullet to protect the president and his family. After conducting exclusive interviews with more than one hundred current and former Secret Service agents, bestselling author... Read more >
Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect
Written by Ronald Kessler
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $26.00
Never before has a journalist penetrated the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret Service, that elite corps of agents who pledge to take a bullet to protect the president and his family. After conducting exclusive interviews with more than one hundred current and former Secret Service agents, bestselling author... Read more >
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eBook.
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In the President's Secret Service
Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect
Written by Ronald Kessler
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $26.00
Never before has a journalist penetrated the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret Service, that elite corps of agents who pledge to take a bullet to protect the president and his family. After conducting exclusive interviews with more than one hundred current and former Secret Service agents, bestselling author... Read more >
Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect
Written by Ronald Kessler
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $26.00
Never before has a journalist penetrated the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret Service, that elite corps of agents who pledge to take a bullet to protect the president and his family. After conducting exclusive interviews with more than one hundred current and former Secret Service agents, bestselling author... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Reflections on the Revolution In Europe
Immigration, Islam, and the West
Written by Christopher Caldwell
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $30.00
Can you have the same Europe with different people in it? The answer, says Christopher Caldwell, is no.
Europe has undergone a demographic revolution it never expected. A half century of mass immigration has failed to produce anything resembling an American-style melting pot. By overestimating its need for immigrant labor and underestimating... Read more >
Immigration, Islam, and the West
Written by Christopher Caldwell
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $30.00
Can you have the same Europe with different people in it? The answer, says Christopher Caldwell, is no.
Europe has undergone a demographic revolution it never expected. A half century of mass immigration has failed to produce anything resembling an American-style melting pot. By overestimating its need for immigrant labor and underestimating... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Shadow Factory
The NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America
Written by James Bamford
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $16.00
James Bamford has been the preeminent expert on the National Security Agency since his reporting revealed the agency’s existence in the 1980s. Now Bamford describes the transformation of the NSA since 9/11, as the agency increasingly turns its high-tech ears on the American public.
The Shadow Factory reconstructs how the NSA missed... Read more >
The NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America
Written by James Bamford
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $16.00
James Bamford has been the preeminent expert on the National Security Agency since his reporting revealed the agency’s existence in the 1980s. Now Bamford describes the transformation of the NSA since 9/11, as the agency increasingly turns its high-tech ears on the American public.
The Shadow Factory reconstructs how the NSA missed... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
hardcover.
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Treachery
Betrayals, Blunders, and Cover-ups: Six Decades of Espionage Against America and Great Britain
Written by Chapman Pincher
Format: Hardcover, 704 pages
On Sale: July 7, 2009
Price: $36.00
From noted intelligence authority and author Chapman Pincher comes an utterly riveting book that reveals in startling detail sixty years of Soviet spying against Great Britain and the United States. Using a huge cache of recently released documents and exclusive interviews, Pincher makes a compelling new case that–as he has long... Read more >
Betrayals, Blunders, and Cover-ups: Six Decades of Espionage Against America and Great Britain
Written by Chapman Pincher
Format: Hardcover, 704 pages
On Sale: July 7, 2009
Price: $36.00
From noted intelligence authority and author Chapman Pincher comes an utterly riveting book that reveals in startling detail sixty years of Soviet spying against Great Britain and the United States. Using a huge cache of recently released documents and exclusive interviews, Pincher makes a compelling new case that–as he has long... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Treachery
Betrayals, Blunders, and Cover-ups: Six Decades of Espionage Against America and Great Britain
Written by Chapman Pincher
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 7, 2009
Price: $36.00
From noted intelligence authority and author Chapman Pincher comes an utterly riveting book that reveals in startling detail sixty years of Soviet spying against Great Britain and the United States. Using a huge cache of recently released documents and exclusive interviews, Pincher makes a compelling new case that–as he has long... Read more >
Betrayals, Blunders, and Cover-ups: Six Decades of Espionage Against America and Great Britain
Written by Chapman Pincher
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 7, 2009
Price: $36.00
From noted intelligence authority and author Chapman Pincher comes an utterly riveting book that reveals in startling detail sixty years of Soviet spying against Great Britain and the United States. Using a huge cache of recently released documents and exclusive interviews, Pincher makes a compelling new case that–as he has long... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Ghost
Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent
Written by Fred Burton
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $16.00
In this hard-hitting memoir, Fred Burton, a key figure in international counterterrorism and domestic spycraft, emerges from the shadows to reveal who he is, what he has accomplished, and the threats that lurk unseen except by an experienced, worldly-wise few. Plunging readers into the murky world of violent religious extremism that... Read more >
Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent
Written by Fred Burton
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $16.00
In this hard-hitting memoir, Fred Burton, a key figure in international counterterrorism and domestic spycraft, emerges from the shadows to reveal who he is, what he has accomplished, and the threats that lurk unseen except by an experienced, worldly-wise few. Plunging readers into the murky world of violent religious extremism that... Read more >
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The Dark Side
The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
Written by Jane Mayer
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 8, 2009
Price: $15.95
A dramatic and damning narrative account of how America has fought the
"War on Terror"
In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. The radical decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were made in a state of utter chaos... Read more >
The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
Written by Jane Mayer
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 8, 2009
Price: $15.95
A dramatic and damning narrative account of how America has fought the
"War on Terror"
In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. The radical decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were made in a state of utter chaos... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Dark Side
The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
Written by Jane Mayer
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $15.95
One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year
National Bestseller
With a New Afterword
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
A Best Book of the Year: Salon, Slate, The Economist, The Washington Post, Cleveland Plain-Dealer
The Dark Side is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the... Read more >
The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
Written by Jane Mayer
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $15.95
One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year
National Bestseller
With a New Afterword
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
A Best Book of the Year: Salon, Slate, The Economist, The Washington Post, Cleveland Plain-Dealer
The Dark Side is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the... Read more >
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Putin's Labyrinth
Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia
Written by Steve Levine
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $16.00
In Putin’s Labyrinth, acclaimed journalist Steve LeVine, who lived in and reported from the former Soviet Union for more than a decade, provides a gripping account of modern Russia. President Dmitri Medvedev and the country’s real power, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, are posing a resolute challenge to the West. In a... Read more >
Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia
Written by Steve Levine
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $16.00
In Putin’s Labyrinth, acclaimed journalist Steve LeVine, who lived in and reported from the former Soviet Union for more than a decade, provides a gripping account of modern Russia. President Dmitri Medvedev and the country’s real power, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, are posing a resolute challenge to the West. In a... Read more >
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The Second Plane
September 11: Terror and Boredom
Written by Martin Amis
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $14.95
A master not only of fiction but also of fiercely controversial political engagement, Martin Amis here gathers fourteen pieces that constitute an evolving, provocative, and insightful examination of the most momentous event of our time.
At the heart of this collection is the long essay “Terror and Boredom,” an unsparing analysis of... Read more >
September 11: Terror and Boredom
Written by Martin Amis
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $14.95
A master not only of fiction but also of fiercely controversial political engagement, Martin Amis here gathers fourteen pieces that constitute an evolving, provocative, and insightful examination of the most momentous event of our time.
At the heart of this collection is the long essay “Terror and Boredom,” an unsparing analysis of... Read more >
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Saviors and Survivors
Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror
Written by Mahmood Mamdani
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $26.95
From the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim comes an important book, unlike any other, that looks at the crisis in Darfur within the context of the history of Sudan and examines the world’s response to that crisis.
In Saviors and Survivors, Mahmood Mamdani explains how the conflict in Darfur began... Read more >
Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror
Written by Mahmood Mamdani
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $26.95
From the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim comes an important book, unlike any other, that looks at the crisis in Darfur within the context of the history of Sudan and examines the world’s response to that crisis.
In Saviors and Survivors, Mahmood Mamdani explains how the conflict in Darfur began... Read more >
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Saviors and Survivors
Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror
Written by Mahmood Mamdani
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $26.95
From the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim comes an important book, unlike any other, that looks at the crisis in Darfur within the context of the history of Sudan and examines the world’s response to that crisis.
In Saviors and Survivors, Mahmood Mamdani explains how the conflict in Darfur began... Read more >
Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror
Written by Mahmood Mamdani
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $26.95
From the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim comes an important book, unlike any other, that looks at the crisis in Darfur within the context of the history of Sudan and examines the world’s response to that crisis.
In Saviors and Survivors, Mahmood Mamdani explains how the conflict in Darfur began... Read more >
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Ethical Realism
Written by Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $13.95
America today faces a world more complicated than ever before, but both political parties have failed to envision a foreign policy that addresses our greatest threats. As a result, the United States risks lurching from crisis to crisis. In Ethical Realism, Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman, two distinguished policy experts from... Read more >
Written by Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $13.95
America today faces a world more complicated than ever before, but both political parties have failed to envision a foreign policy that addresses our greatest threats. As a result, the United States risks lurching from crisis to crisis. In Ethical Realism, Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman, two distinguished policy experts from... Read more >
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Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism
A Call to Action
Written by George Weigel
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2009
Price: $18.95
“History must be made to march in the direction of genuine human progress; world affairs have no intrinsic momentum that necessarily results in the victory of decency. Maintaining the morale necessary to achieving progress in history requires us to live our lives, today, against a moral horizon of responsibility that is... Read more >
A Call to Action
Written by George Weigel
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2009
Price: $18.95
“History must be made to march in the direction of genuine human progress; world affairs have no intrinsic momentum that necessarily results in the victory of decency. Maintaining the morale necessary to achieving progress in history requires us to live our lives, today, against a moral horizon of responsibility that is... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Next 100 Years
A Forecast for the 21st Century
Written by George Friedman
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $25.95
A Forecast for the 21st Century
Written by George Friedman
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $25.95
“Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman
In his long-awaited and provocative new book, George Friedman turns his eye on the future—offering a lucid, highly...
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eBook and a
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The Next 100 Years
A Forecast for the 21st Century
Written by George Friedman
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $25.95
“Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman
In his long-awaited and provocative new book, George Friedman turns his eye on the future—offering a lucid, highly... Read more >
A Forecast for the 21st Century
Written by George Friedman
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $25.95
“Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman
In his long-awaited and provocative new book, George Friedman turns his eye on the future—offering a lucid, highly... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Terrorist Watch
Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack
Written by Ronald Kessler
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $14.95
“You make a mistake, there are dead people.”
—FBI Special Agent Art Cummings, head of international counterterrorism operations
Drawing on unprecedented access to FBI and CIA counterterrorism operatives, New York Times bestselling author Ronald Kessler presents the chilling story of terrorists’ relentless efforts to mount another devastating attack on the United... Read more >
Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack
Written by Ronald Kessler
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $14.95
“You make a mistake, there are dead people.”
—FBI Special Agent Art Cummings, head of international counterterrorism operations
Drawing on unprecedented access to FBI and CIA counterterrorism operatives, New York Times bestselling author Ronald Kessler presents the chilling story of terrorists’ relentless efforts to mount another devastating attack on the United... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Terrorist Watch
Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack
Written by Ronald Kessler
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $14.95
“You make a mistake, there are dead people.”
—FBI Special Agent Art Cummings, head of international counterterrorism operations
Drawing on unprecedented access to FBI and CIA counterterrorism operatives, New York Times bestselling author Ronald Kessler presents the chilling story of terrorists’ relentless efforts to mount another devastating attack on the United... Read more >
Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack
Written by Ronald Kessler
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $14.95
“You make a mistake, there are dead people.”
—FBI Special Agent Art Cummings, head of international counterterrorism operations
Drawing on unprecedented access to FBI and CIA counterterrorism operatives, New York Times bestselling author Ronald Kessler presents the chilling story of terrorists’ relentless efforts to mount another devastating attack on the United... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
