Jihad in Brooklyn

The true story of a potentially devastating terrorist plot in New York City-and the heroes who risked their lives to prevent it.
On the morning of July 31, 1997, two young Palestinian men living in Brooklyn, New York, were prepared to sacrifice themselves as martyrs to their bloody cause. Their plan-to board a subway filled with commuters, wait until the train was traveling through the tunnel under the East River, and then detonate a shrapnel-covered explosive belt they had built in their tenement apartment. The attack would have killed hundreds, possibly even thousands, while sending the city-and the country-into a state of panic.
This is the inspiring, startling, and frightening true story of how the NYPD learned of the impending attack and made a daring predawn raid on the terrorist hideout. The gripping series of events began with an Egyptian immigrant who, learning of the plan, alerted the police. Coordinating an assault with limited resources and manpower, seven brave members of the NYPD moved in-reaching the terrorists when they literally had their fingers on the trigger-saving countless lives, preventing a disaster that would have paralyzed New York City, and alerting the nation that, in today's world, violence and terror could begin at home.

Samuel M. Katz is the author of more than 20 books and 100 articles on Middle East security issues, terrorism, and police and military special operations. The founder of Special Operations Report, he has appeared as an expert on networks ranging from BBC World News to Fox News to Al Jazeera. Coauthor with Fred Burton of the New York Times bestseller Under Fire: The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi, he is also the author of Relentless Pursuit: The DSS and the Manhunt for the Al-Qaeda Terrorists; The Hunt for the Engineer: How Israeli Agents Tracked the Hamas Master Bomber; and many other books on the Arab-Israeli conflict and international counterterrorism.