Everything you think you know about terrorism is wrong.  Every single image and concept that enters your head when you hear about a terrorist attack is fatally distorted by the misconceptions drilled into you by society at large. 9/11? Much more the result of dumb luck than you think. And it had almost nothing to do with killing people.

You don’t know the first thing about terrorists, because you can’t help but immediately associate them with the loss of innocent life, with Evil.  But no terrorist in the history of the world has ever thought he was doing anything except serving a greater good, and each and every one has died knowing the comrades he was leaving behind would embrace his memory after he passed.

There’s no way to keep terrorists with the ability to bring America to her knees out, no way to stop them from entering our country.  Because they’re already here.

We just refuse to admit that they’ve been right here next to us all along, unable to escape.

We refuse to even consider that perhaps at one point or another we’ve played a part  in their creation.  That if we too have been one of those good men doing nothing, Evil has already triumphed.

And that all we’re doing now is waiting for the consequences.

For the first time, an entire book on the history, origins, and future of terrorism is being made available for free online in an easy-to-navigate format. Tremble the Devil was written by a Harvard-educated counterterrorism analyst, it’s an accessible, fast-paced distillation of everything you need to know about the world’s most dangerous phenomenon.

If you want to bookmark this page to come back to later since you don’t have the time to get through an entire book just now and you’d rather read a brief piece about current events, the most recent posts can be found at the blog.

Tremble the Devil tells terrorism’s story using engaging allusions to everyone and everything from Jesus Christ to Beer Pong and from Malcolm X to Friday the Thirteenth. Each chapter begins with a hook taken from artists ranging from the Rolling Stones and Jay-Z, to William Blake and Tupac Shakur. And it packages the social insights of The Tipping Point along with the compelling colloquial style of Freakonomics.

All of this is woven together in an intriguing and salient book that reads like a novel.

It is, however, a work of non-fiction that divides the aforementioned three levels of comprehension into three parts, and illustrates terrorism theory by recounting the most important modern attacks and tying them to the past, each other, and the future – in the process creating the richest and most complete work on terrorism to date, a book that will change the way you look at everything from organized religion to sports drinks.

Tremble the Devil is a lucid explanation of terrorism in all its forms.

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