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"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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A compelling story of a mad bomber, a suspect scientist, and paranoia in the age of terror from the National Book Award-winning author of Trust Exercise and My Education
Professor Lee, an Asian-born mathematician near retirement age would seem the last person to attract the attention of FBI agents. Yet after a colleague becomes the latest victim of a serial bomber, Lee must endure the undermining power of suspicion...
Professor Lee, an Asian-born mathematician near retirement age would seem the last person to attract the attention of FBI agents. Yet after a colleague becomes the latest victim of a serial bomber, Lee must endure the undermining power of suspicion...
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"He's a cop trying to stop a serial bomber. And she'll stop at nothing to clear her own name. When a deadly bomb goes off during a climate change debate, librarian and event coordinator Jackie Santoro becomes the prime suspect. Her motive, according to Detective Avery Wick: to avenge the suicide of her prominent father, who was accused of crimes by a city councilman attending the event. Though Avery has doubts about Jackie's guilt, he can't exonerate...
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"Growing up next door to Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, for 16 years, the author, with the innocence of her youth robbed, seeks to reconcile her lived experience with the evil that lived in plain sight by probing his personal history, his writings, and his secret coded crime journals."--
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After a teacher saves his students from a terrorist attack, he finds himself at the center of the investigation. Coney Island is a weird place, packed with people from every walk of life, and David Fitzgerald fits in well. An English professor at a tough public school, he works hard to connect with students with whom he has little in common. Sometimes he succeeds; sometimes he fails. But one of his failures is about to become a catastrophe. A former...
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"From Lis Wiehl, New York Times bestselling author and "storyteller extraordinaire" (Steve Berry), with New York Times bestselling crime writer Lisa Pulitzer, the definitive, gripping account of the longest pursuit in FBI history: the quest to find and capture the domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski."--
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"With criminal investigative analyst Olive Wells at the center of a bomber's dangerous game, she'll do anything to catch the culprit--even work with her ex-fiancé and his K-9 detector dog. But with the Christmas rampage drawing ever closer, Zac Turner's convinced the attacks are personal. Can they piece together their ties to the bomber...before another gift explodes?"--
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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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"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...
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Disinformation Company
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[2006]
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English
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Learn the secret history of the suicide bomber, from the child martyrs of the Iran-Iraq war, the truck bombers in southern Lebanon, to the young men and women who now strap explosives to their bodies with former CIA agent Robert Baer.
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Carroll & Graf
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1998.
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English
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A vacation in the mountains by the Nameless Detective of San Francisco is spoilt when a bomber appears, seeking revenge on the host's family. Nameless is staying with the family of a district attorney who sent the bomber to jail.
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Poisoned Pen Press
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2013.
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English
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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...
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W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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An examination of the Unabomber case projects Ted Kaczynski's life against a backdrop of the Cold War, emerging from an unhappy adolescence to attend Harvard University, where he adopted the ideas that would lead to his violent behavior.
14) A common man
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Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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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...
15) Cleanskin
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Entertainment One
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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"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." --
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Lance Spector ; 2
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AuthorContact
Pub. Date
[2020?]
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English
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"Moscow, Russia. A massive bombing kills hundreds.Washington DC, USA - The President is terrified the attack is the opening salvo of a new Cold War. Langley, USA with Washington and the Kremlin on the brink of war, Levi Roth has to find out who's behind the attack. There's only one man for the job, but the last anyone saw of him, he was in Moscow, severely wounded, waiting for the help of a Russian former-GRU agent. Roth must find him before it's...
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Duke University Press
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2016.
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English
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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,...
18) The target
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Lance Spector ; 3
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AuthorContact
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Latvian Border Region A policewoman finds something terrifying. Deep in the forests along the border, is proof of a massive Russian invasion plan. US Embassy, Berlin Someone is trying desperately to get a message to the CIA. But Kremlin assassins have been activated across three countries to stop them. New York, USA A Kremlin sleeper agent is activated with very precise instructions. The Kremlin has set its plans in motion. Its goal is nothing short...
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2013
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English
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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?
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