Dark Invasion: 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America - Tapa blanda

"Dark Invasion...will move you to the edge of your seat with the facts alone, but the author's suspenseful detective-mystery narrative is what keeps you there."--USA Today

"Dark Invasion is a must-read for lovers of suspense and anyone who wants to understand how the basis of our homeland security system was born."--Tom Reiss, New York Times bestselling author of The Black Count and The Orientalist

"History is all about retelling tales that need telling. In Dark Invasion, Howard Blum has rescued a batch of compelling ones and woven them into grim, fascinating remembrance."--Dallas Morning News

"Blum briefs us on early homeland security with tales of German terrorists, including military officers, a germ-warfare expert, a Harvard prof and a document forger."--New York Post, "Required Reading"

"I read Dark Invasion without stopping. It is a well-researched and exceedingly well-written account of a pre-World War I series of terroristic attacks on the United States, in this case perpetrated by Germans. It is full of good stories and characters."--Norman Stone, award-winning author of The Eastern Front: 1914-1917 and World War One: A Short History

"This is a wonderful story, with a cast of characters out of a Cecil B. DeMille epic, told in a style that is lucid, lyrical, even electric. Narrative history at its very best."--Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of FOUNDING BROTHERS and AMERICAN CREATION, on American Lightning

"Howard Blum has given us a fascinating-and hugely entertaining-glimpse into early 20th-century America....And-eat your hearts out, novelists-it's all true."--John Steele Gordon, author of EMPIRE OF WEALTH: THE EPIC HISTORY OF AMERICAN ECONOMIC POWER, on American Lightning

"Howard Blum's riveting and perturbing Dark Invasion...is well-researched and written, and it maintains a fairly high level of suspense, which is difficult to bring off in a book about historical events."--Wall Street Journal

"a spy thriller of the first order....Dark Invasion is another page-turner that is compelling.... [Blum] has a remarkable talent for both uncovering history's most inexplicably forgotten stories...and for writing non-fiction paced like a big-budget thriller."--Daily Beast

"Compelling ... a grim, fascinating remembrance."--Columbus Dispatch