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This is a pioneering critical intervention into the study of terrorism, language and political thought. Challenging the commonly held idea that 'suicide-bombings' are motivated by a nihilistic hatred of life, this book argues that it is more helpful to examine such violent agency through the concept of 'sacrifice'.
Through a unique look at the way 'sacrifice' is used in the Arabic language, this book offers penetrating insights into jihadi thought....
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This collection of essays explores the formation and normalisation of fear in the context of war and terrorism.
Freedom from fear is a universal right and fundamental for human well-being. People often look to governments, humanitarian agencies, and other institutions to further this aim. However, this book shows that these organisations often use the same logic of fear to monitor, control, and contain human beings in zones of violence.
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This book controversially argues that Al Qaeda has clear aims, and that the only way to defeat it is to engage with its arguments in a serious way.
Since the publication of the first edition in 2006, Mohamedou has brought the text right up-to-date. Starting with Al Qaeda's creation almost twenty years ago, and sketching its global mutation, Mohamedou explains that there is a cogent strategy to Al Qaeda's actions. He shows that the 'war on terror'...
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Some of the finest writing and reporting on the events of September 11 was done by Der Spiegel, Germany's magazine of record. With its main office in Hamburg, base of operations for terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta and many of the others, Der Spiegel's journalists were on the front lines of the earliest investigation into the identities of those who brought holy war to America.
The award-winning team from Spiegel was also at Ground Zero, talking...
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When a deadly virus threatens the world, only CIA Agent Brianna Dagger and her unmatched parkour skills can prevent the impending disaster-even as betrayal lurks around every corner.
MAZE OF TRAITORS (A Brianna Dagger CIA Thriller-Book 2) is the second novel in a new series by spy thriller author Vin Strong. The series begins with MAZE OF SPIES (book #1).
A captivating espionage thriller that will grip you from beginning to end, the Brianna...
6) Target Eight
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"Thriller writing at its best... A gripping story that's hard to put down."
--Midwest Book Review, Diane Donovan (re Any Means Necessary)
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From #1 bestselling and USA Today bestselling author Jack Mars, author of the critically acclaimed Luke Stone and Agent Zero series (with over 5,000 five-star reviews), comes an explosive new action-packed espionage series that takes readers on a wild ride across Europe, America, and the world-perfect...
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"Fans of traditional mysteries will welcome Axelrod's entertaining fifth outing for Nantucket police chief Henry Kennis…That Henry believes in an 'old school low-tech version of police work' allows the reader to readily follow the clues." -Publishers Weekly
The fifth Henry Kennis mystery takes us into the closed, gossip-riddled, back-stabbing world of Nantucket's community theater.
Horst Refn, the widely disliked and resented Artistic Director...
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Michael Scott is not your average American teen trying to find his way through the school years. When a bomb explodes in Bogota, Colombia, the missionary kid unknowingly becomes a world player as his life becomes mysteriously interlaced with Hector Chavez, the bomber, and one who becomes the most feared terrorist of the 20th and 21st Century. Neither of them realizes the deadly conflict threatening to envelop global events of 9/11 when a demonic plot...
9) Gadget
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From an Edgar award winner, this thriller about a physicist forced to make an A-bomb is "a splendid account of the excesses of science and bureaucracy" (The New York Times).
An American physicist working in Hamburg, Jim Hawkins is on his way home from his job at a German nuclear institute when he is rammed off the road and abducted by terrorists. Drugged and taken to a secret location, he wakes to find himself being held hostage alongside his...
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He was the most wanted man in the world for decades. Carlos the Jackal, the Venezuelan-born terrorist, carried out a wave of attacks across Europe in the 1970s and 1980s. A ruthless self-proclaimed revolutionary and notorious womanizer, he claimed to fight for the Palestinian cause and communist ideology, but also worked as a mercenary for rogue regimes and organizations. After bursting onto the world stage with the 1975 OPEC siege in Vienna, where...
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The hunt is on for the traitors Larry Robinson and Arthur Miller to bring them to justice. Meanwhile, a shipment of weapons grade plutonium has been hijacked and is on its way to a Cartel-controlled Harbor in Colombia. The US Military scrambles to plan an assault even while retired Delta Force Operator David Fleming plans his own rescue mission to rescue his wife and her father, kidnapped and forced to work for Larry Robinson and the Cartels to assemble...
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Description-Dogs of War"Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war."-William Shakespeare, Act 3, Scene 1, Julius CaesarThey're here. In America. Thousands of Islamic terrorists committed to a rabid jihad that ends only when they've butchered the last man, woman, and child. Worst of all, they have nukes. The Day of Jihad is at hand. The odds of Western civilization being snuffed out grow stronger each day.Compounding the threat, the Chinese are solidifying...
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With the CIA at the core of the war on terror, no agency is as important to preserving America's freedom. Yet the CIA is a closed and secretive world-impenetrable to generations of journalists-and few Americans know what really goes on among the spy masters who plot America's worldwide campaign against terrorists.
Only Ronald Kessler, an award-winning former Washington Post and Wall Street Journal investigative reporter, could have gained the unprecedented...
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In 2006, four years after the illegal prison in Guantánamo Bay opened, the Pentagon finally released the names of the 773 men held there, as well as 7,000 pages of transcripts from tribunals assessing their status as 'enemy combatants'. Andy Worthington is the only person to have analysed every page of these transcripts and this book reveals the stories of all those imprisoned in Guantanamo.
Deprived of the safeguards of the Geneva Conventions,...
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The New York Times calls GROWING UP BIN LADEN: "The most complete account available of the terrorist's immediate family." (May 15, 2011)
A true story that few ever believed would come to light, GROWING UP BIN LADEN uncovers startling revelations and hidden secrets carefully guarded by the most wanted terrorist of our lifetime, Osama bin Laden.
"I was not always the wife of Osama bin Laden. Once I was an innocent child dreaming little girl dreams..."
Thus...
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Suspicious Activity is an epic drama of intrigue, suspense, thrills, and legal combat-torn out of today's headlines.
"The purpose of the lawsuit is to fully expose the bank's willing support to groups that are killing Americans-and others-overseas." This announcement by attorney Nicholas "Deke" Deketomis sets up the gladiatorial arena between Big Banking and a team of well-meaning activist lawyers.
The Iraq and Afghanistan Wars introduced...
17) Dead Code
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In the murky world of organized crime, drug cartels, and terrorist organizations, a covert US government organization operates in the shadows. Known only as "Operation Deep Cross," their mission is to eliminate high-valued assets that operate with impunity inside the United States. They generate a "Dead Code" - an encrypted message that is sent to "dark contract assassins" who carry out the hits. One such assassin, known only as "Red Snake," is their...
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'A diplomatic genius' Gordon Brown
'Tom Fletcher was the ultimate Downing Street operator' David Cameron From behind the trigger, there are only targets
Having been made High Commissioner in Nairobi, Ed Barnes is keeping his head down and staying out of trouble. But when his daughter, Sophie, is kidnapped following a security crisis for which he is blamed, his attempts at normality fall apart once again. He finds himself at the heart of a complex...
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This book examines the events of September 11th 2001, Osama bin Laden's role and the complex working of the Al Qa'ida terror network. This is the classic book on the history of the USA's involvement with Afghanistan that explains the devastating consequences of the alliance between the US government and radical Islam. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the roots of the current international crisis.
Cooley marshals a wealth...
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This book takes the long-view by analysing Islamic State's beginnings in Iraq to their involvement in the Arab Spring and through to the present day.
The world is watching IS's advance through the Middle East. The US risks being drawn into another war in the region despite its experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq. IS are creating catastrophic waves across the region, but it is still unclear what lies behind its success.
Michael Griffin uncovers...
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