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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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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 Blumβs 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 plotβthe basis for the film to be produced by and starring Bradley Cooper. When a βneutralβ 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 saboteursβincluding an expert on germ warfare, a Harvard professor, and a brilliant, debonair spymasterβdevise a series of βmysterious accidentsβ 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 departmentβs 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 enemyβs 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.
 Media BuzzFresh Air - NPR - February 25, 2014
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