Eyewitness accounts of the bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building, April 19, 1995. 

"A bomb is more than a weapon. A bomb is an expression of the bomber's thoughts about you, his predictions of your behavior--a performance designed to fool you into making one fatally wrong move. In The Bomb Maker, Edgar Award-winning author Thomas Perryintroduces us to the dark corners of a mind intent on transforming a simple machine into an act of murder--and to those committed to preventing that outcome at any cost. A threat is called into the...

"Jessie Archer faced down death to prove her dedication to Athena, the elite organization of female spies she works for. Now she's back on the team, in time to head to Pakistan to take down the man whose actions spurred Athena's founders to create the secretive squad. But his connections spread farther than anyone knew, and when a girls' school in Mumbai is bombed, a shadowy far-right organization reveals itself--and its evil plans to continue attacks....

A bomb explodes at the Icon International building in New Orleans while lawyer Jill Clark Nichols is in the top floor boardroom. The thirty-story building goes up in flames and fire departments from all around the area are called in. The firefighters from Newpointe are especially concerned since they know Jill is inside the building. Dan, her husband, rushes in to save her. But as firefighters work to evacuate the upper floors of the building, a second...

In an effort to determine why the atrocity occurred, the author traces the lives of the two immigrant brothers responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings.

As the heat rises on a New York summer, a suicide bomb set off in a Times Square subway station nearly claims the life of 68-year-old ex-madam Kathleen. Then a woman is brutally murdered, her body dumped on a marshy beach in Queens. The woman, Sharon, was last seen by Emily, a Deputy Press Officer working at City Hall, getting into a car in front of the building where she and Kathleen both live in far upper Manhattan. Emily uses her position to request...

Former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian must find the link between the bombing of an Armenian Orthodox church in a quiet Philadelphia neighborhood and the murder of a wealthy investment banker with reputed ties to a dangerous secret ruling elite.

A former IRA terrorist comes to the United States to start a new life as, of all things, a bomb squad detective but he is followed by a bitter friend from his old life.

New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion Brooks knows she should be happy. Her college sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to the life everyone has always expected they'd have together: a quiet house in the suburbs, Marion staying home to raise their future children. But instead, Marion finds herself feeling trapped. So when she comes across an opportunity to audition for the famous Radio City Rockettes-the glamorous precision-dancing...

"When a bomb kills scores of people on a Minneapolis light-rail train, newspaper reporter Skeeter Hughes sets out to find the terrorist. Is it someone from Minnesota's huge Somali community? Is it a computer-savvy bank embezzler? Or someone totally unexpected? Skeeter vows to find the killer for reasons both professional and personal. One of the dead is her best friend, who also happens to be the city's mayor. Tell-it-like-it-is Skeeter struggles...