On July 18, 1994, the AMIA building in Buenos Aires was decimated by an explosion, which killed 85 people and injured over 400 more. This terrorist attack was made against Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, the most influential Jewish philanthropic organization in Argentina. Appearances are often deceiving, and while it appeared that the Argentine government was launching a thorough investigation, the reality was that a government-sponsored smokescreen...

2nd Place, Young Adult, Royal Palm Literary Award 2013When you choose your friends, you also choose your enemies. Seventeen-year-old Dee wants nothing more than to help her twin brother, Dum, break free from the trauma in their childhood and speak again, but the only person who can help Dum is the alpha empath, Danyael Sabre, whom the U. S. government considers a terrorist and traitor. The search for Danyael will lead Dee and Dum from the sheltered...

This complete summary of "The One Percent Doctrine" by Ron Suskind, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, outlines his insight into America's war with an unrelenting army of terrorists. He explains how the Bush administration's fear of low probability, high impact events made them ignore evidence and act out of pure suspicion during the war on terror - for example their campaign against Saddam Hussein and the origins of the Iraq War. Added-value of...

"Winner of the 2016 Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological Association" "Winner of the 2015 ARNOVA Award for Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research" "Honorable Mention for the 2016 Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association" Christopher Bail is assistant professor of sociology...

Intrigue, terrorism, history, art, and the secrets of the Church collide in a relentless page-turning thriller "An elegant, twisty thriller in which a gay couple investigates a mysterious suicide in a scenic Italian hill town. It's not hard to imagine that this book could do for Orvieto what Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil did for Savannah." (Armistead Maupin, author of the internationally acclaimed Tales of the City) An American couple in...

A sweeping international thriller that explores the geopolitical faultlines of South Asia. Colonel Imtiaz Afridi, India's legendary spymaster, has zeroed in on a new threat emanating from the borderlands over which he keeps watch from his surveillance center in the Himalayan foothills. An elusive warlord-faceless, nameless, and known only by his nom de guerre Guldaar, meaning "leopard" in Urdu-has built an illicit empire throughout the lands that...

A harrowing and unforgettable look at reporting in Mexico, one of the world's most dangerous countries to be a journalist. In 2017, Mexico edged out Iraq and Syria as the deadliest country in the world in which to be a reporter, with at least fourteen journalists killed over the course of the year. The following year another ten journalists were murdered, joining the almost 150 reporters who have been killed since the mid-2000s in a wave of violence...

Pike Logan tracks highly-trained Russian assassins to Brazil in this blistering, action-packed thriller from New York Times bestselling author and former Special Forces Officer Brad Taylor. Pike Logan and the Taskforce were once the apex predators, an unrivaled hunting machine that decimated those out to harm the United States, but they may have met their match. While Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill prepare to join their team on a counter-terrorist...

A report on the personalities, political agendas, and conspiracy theories surrounding the 9/11 Commission reveals how the commission forced the Bush Administration to open top-secret files on terrorist threats while retaining key secrets of its own.

A renegade government and a terrorist cell have gained access to nuclear artillery shells that they intend to detonate in the Canary Islands to cause a massive landslip that will crash on the eastern seaboard. Only Charlie Dean and his team at Desk Three can help avert catastrophe.