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Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America
Harper
February 2014
On Sale: February 11, 2014
496 pages
ISBN: 006230755X
EAN: 9780062307552
Kindle: B00DB3FS1O
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Non-Fiction
Combining the pulsating drive of Showtime's
Homeland with the fascinating historical detail of
such of narrative nonfiction bestsellers as Double
Cross and In the Garden of Beasts, Dark
Invasion is Howard Blum’s gritty, high-energy true-life
tale of German espionage and terror on American soil during
World War I, and the NYPD Inspector who helped uncover the
plot—the basis for the film to be produced by and starring
Bradley Cooper. When a “neutral” United States becomes
a trading partner for the Allies early in World War I, the
Germans implement a secret plan to strike back. A team of
saboteurs—including an expert on germ warfare, a Harvard
professor, and a brilliant, debonair spymaster—devise a
series of “mysterious accidents” using explosives and
biological weapons, to bring down vital targets such as
ships, factories, livestock, and even captains of industry
like J. P. Morgan. New York Police Inspector Tom
Tunney, head of the department’s Bomb Squad, is assigned the
difficult mission of stopping them. Assembling a team of
loyal operatives, the cunning Irish cop hunts for the
conspirators among a population of more than eight million
Germans. But the deeper he finds himself in this labyrinth
of deception, the more Tunney realizes that the enemy’s plan
is far more complex and more dangerous than he
suspected. Full of drama and intensity, illustrated
with eight pages of black and-white photos, Dark
Invasion is riveting war thriller that chillingly
echoes our own time.
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