Jihad in Brooklyn: The NYPD Raid That Stopped America's First Suicide Bombers

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 ...