HOWARD BLUM

In the bestselling tradition of Wiseguy and Boss of Bosses -- the inside story of the fall of the "Teflon Don"The team: A handpicked squad of FBI agents -- led by a war hero determined to get the job done. The target: John Gotti, the seemingly invincible head of the richest and most powerful crime of modern-day Untouchables, the FBIs C-16 Organized Crime squad, who finally ended the cocky crime lords reign of terror. Drawing on unprecedented access to FBI records and agents, bestselling author and prize-winning journalist Howard Blum tells the riveting and suspenseful story behind the headlines. Here is the deadly game of cat and mouse that pitted Gotti, his ruthless henchmen and his elusive law-enforcement mole against the Bureau. It is a tale of courage, murder and betrayal. From Mafia backrooms to FBI squad rooms, from the high-tech electronic invasion of Gottis headquarters to the desperate effort to expose the mole, Gangland is more shocking than fiction -- an instant Mafia classic.

Mount Sinai. For many, it is the most sacred place on Earththe site where God descended to give Moses the Ten Commandments. Yet for centuries, mankind has not known its exact location. In this heart-pounding true story, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Howard Blum tells the enthralling account of two modern-day adventurersLarry Williams, a two-time Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Montana and a self-made millionaire, and his friend Bob Cornuke, a retired policemen and former SWAT team member. Lured by the prospect of finding the fabled fortune in gold that the ancient Hebrews took with them when they fled from Egypt, the two men set out to find the true site of Mount Sinaiwith only the Old Testament as a guide. Eminent biblical scholars at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania have argued that Mount Sinai is not in the Sinai Peninsula at all, but rather in northwestern Saudi Arabia. However, they were never allowed into the kingdom to prove their argument. When Cornuke and Williams are also denied entry, they daringly sneak into Saudi Arabia. And what they discover at the mountain known as Jabal al Lawz will astonish the worldand inspire readers to rethink the role of the Bible in history. They find the remains of the stone altar at which the Golden Calf was worshiped, the twelve pillars that Moses ordered to be erected, the cave where Moses slept, and, most sensationally, the unnaturally scorched spot on the mountaintop where God gave Moses the two stone tablets. They also explain, in a fascinating account, the truth about the parting of the Red Sea waters. And not the least of their discoveries is the fact that one of the most sacred spots on earth is now a top secret Saudi military base. As these two adventurers follow in Moses footsteps, they become pawns in a dangerous game of international power politics and intrigue, This action-packed talepart high-tech treasure hunt, part modern-day spy thriller, and part biblical detective storyis riveting. And it is all true.

En noviembre de 1944, cuando la guerra en Europa estaba llegando a su fin, el gobierno Británico accedió finalmente a enviar una brigada de cinco mil voluntarios judíos desde Palestina para combatir contra el ejercito aleman. En un momento en que los judios estaban siendo masacrados sin piedad, estos soldados con la Estrella de David cosida en las mangas de sus uniformes, demostraron al mundo que su pueblo tambien podia presentar batalla.

The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Dark Invasion, channels Erik Larson and Ben Macintyre in this riveting biography of Betty Pack, the dazzling American debutante who became an Allied spy during WWII and was hailed by OSS chief General Wild Bill" Donovan as the greatest unsung heroine of the war.Betty Pack was charming, beautiful, and intelligentand she knew it. As an agent for Britains MI-6 and then Americas OSS during World War II, these qualities proved crucial to her success. This is the remarkable story of this Mata Hari from Minnesota (Time) and the passions that ruled her tempestuous lifea life filled with dangerous liaisons and death-defying missions vital to the Allied victory.For decades, much of Bettys career working for MI-6 and the OSS remained classified. Through access to recently unclassified files, Howard Blum discovers the truth about the attractive blond, codenamed Cynthia, who seduced diplomats and military attaches across the globe in exchange for ciphers and secrets; cracked embassy safes to steal codes; and obtained the Polish notebooks that proved key to Alan Turings success with Operation Ultra.Beneath Bettys cool, professional determination, Blum reveals a troubled woman conflicted by the very traits that made her successful: her lack of deep emotional connections and her readiness to risk everything. The Last Goodnight is a mesmerizing, provocative, and moving portrait of an exceptional heroine whose undaunted courage helped to save the world.This meticulously researched book opens the classified files on a life of daring and deception.Women in Espionage: Follow the journey of Amy Elizabeth Thorpecodename Cynthiafrom American debutante to the OSSs most effective "unsung heroine" of the war. Codebreaking and Ciphers: Discover how Bettys dangerous liaisons with diplomats yielded the critical codes and Polish notebooks that fueled Alan Turings success with Operation Ultra. OSS and MI6 History: Go behind the scenes of Britains MI6 and Americas fledgling OSS as they deploy their most audacious agent against Axis targets from the Spanish Civil War to the Vichy French embassy. A Complex Heroine: Look beneath the cool professionalism to find a conflicted woman whose readiness to risk everything for the Allied cause came at a great personal cost.

Combining the pulsating drive of Showtimes Homeland with the fascinating historical detail of such of narrative nonfiction bestsellers as Double Cross and In the Garden of Beasts, Dark Invasion is Howard Blums gritty, high-energy true-life tale of German espionage and terror on American soil during World War I, and the NYPD Inspector who helped uncover the plotthe basis for the film to be produced by and starring Bradley Cooper.When a neutral United States becomes a trading partner for the Allies early in World War I, the Germans implement a secret plan to strike back. A team of saboteursincluding an expert on germ warfare, a Harvard professor, and a brilliant, debonair spymasterdevise a series of mysterious accidents using explosives and biological weapons, to bring down vital targets such as ships, factories, livestock, and even captains of industry like J. P. Morgan.New York Police Inspector Tom Tunney, head of the departments Bomb Squad, is assigned the difficult mission of stopping them. Assembling a team of loyal operatives, the cunning Irish cop hunts for the conspirators among a population of more than eight million Germans. But the deeper he finds himself in this labyrinth of deception, the more he realizes that the enemys plan is far more complex and more dangerous than he suspected.Full of drama and intensity, illustrated with eight pages of black and-white photos, Dark Invasion is riveting war thriller that chillingly echoes our own time.German Secret Service in America: Follow the meticulously researched account of Germanys covert war on a neutral United States, orchestrated by a debonair spymaster, a Harvard professor, and a germ warfare expert. The First Homeland Security Chief: Meet NYPD Inspector Tom Tunney, the head of the Bomb Squad who, with his loyal team of undercover cops, finds himself in a race against time to hunt down conspirators and protect a vulnerable nation. Biological Terrorism in WWI: Uncover the shocking plot to use explosives and deadly biological weaponsincluding anthrax and glandersagainst American ships, factories, and livestock to cripple the Allied war effort. A High-Stakes Spy Hunt: Experience a thrilling cat-and-mouse game as the cunning Irish cop hunts a sophisticated German spy ring targeting everything from cargo ships to industry titan J.P. Morgan himself.

"A truly thrilling expose of the previously unknown Nazi assassination plot that could have changed history." Edward Jay Epstein, New York Times bestselling author of The Assassination ChroniclesThe New York Times bestselling author returns with a tale as riveting and suspenseful as any thriller: the true story of the Nazi plot to kill the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the U.S.S.R. during World War II.The mission: to kill the three most important and heavily guarded men in the world.The assassins: a specially trained team headed by the killer known as The Most Dangerous Man in Europe.The stakes: nothing less than the future of the Western world.The year is 1943 and the three Allied leadersFranklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalinare meeting for the first time at a top-secret conference in Tehran. But the Nazis have learned about the meeting and Hitler sees it as his last chance to turn the tide. Although the war is undoubtedly lost, the Germans believe that perhaps a new set of Allied leaders might be willing to make a more reasonable peace in its aftermath. And so a plan is devisedcode name Operation Long Jumpto assassinate FDR, Churchill, and Stalin.Immediately, a highly trained, hand-picked team of Nazi commandos is assembled, trained, armed with special weapons, and parachuted into Iran. They have six days to complete the daring assignment before the statesmen will return home. With no margin for error and little time to spare, Mike Reilly, the head of FDRs Secret Service detaila man from a Montana silver mining town who describes himself as an Irish cop with more muscle than brainsmust overcome his suspicions and instincts to work with a Soviet agent from the NKVD (the precursor to the KGB) to save the three most powerful men in the world.Filled with eight pages of black-and-white photographs, Night of the Assassins is a suspenseful true-life tale about an impossible mission, a ticking clock, and one man who stepped up to the challenge and prevented a world catastrophe.

On October 6, 1973Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendarthe Arab world launched a bold and ingeniously conceived surprise attack against Israel. After three days of intense, bloody combat, an unprepared Israel was fighting for survival, while the Arabs, with massive forces closing in on the Jewish heartland, were poised to redeem the honor lost in three previous wars.Based on declassified Israeli government documents and revealing interviews with soldiers, generals, and intelligence operatives on both sides of the conflict, The Eve of Destruction weaves a suspenseful, eye-opening story of war, politics, and deception. It also tells the moving human tale of the men and women who fought to maintain love and honor as their lives and destinies were swept up in the Yom Kippur War.How was one of the worlds most formidable intelligence agencies caught by surprise?Declassified Documents: Go behind the scenes with never-before-seen Israeli government files and captured Egyptian and Syrian reports that piece together the full, untold story. A War on Two Fronts: Witness the harrowing battles for survival in both the Sinai and the Golan Heights, as told by the soldiers, generals, and intelligence operatives who were there. The Human Cost of War: Experience the moving, personal stories of the men and womenincluding a newly married couple swept up in the chaoswho fought to maintain love and honor amidst the conflict. High-Stakes Espionage: Uncover the covert deceptions and critical intelligence failures that led to the shocking surprise attack on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.

It was an explosion that reverberated across the countryand into the very heart of early-twentieth-century America. On the morning of October 1, 1910, the walls of the Los Angeles Times Building buckled as a thunderous detonation sent men, machinery, and mortar rocketing into the night air. When at last the wreckage had been sifted and the hospital triage units consulted, twenty-one people were declared dead and dozens more injured. But as it turned out, this was just a prelude to the devastation that was to come.In American Lightning, acclaimed author Howard Blum masterfully evokes the incredible circumstances that led to the original crime of the centuryand an aftermath more dramatic than even the crime itself. With smoke still wafting up from the charred ruins, the citys mayor reacts with undisguised excitement when he learns of the arrival, only that morning, of Americas greatest detective, William J. Burns, a former Secret Service man who has been likened to Sherlock Holmes. Surely Burns, already world famous for cracking unsolvable crimes and for his elaborate disguises, can run the perpetrators to ground. Through the work of many months, snowbound stakeouts, and brilliant forensic sleuthing, the great investigator finally identifies the men he believes are responsible for so much destruction. Stunningly, Burns accuses the menlabor activists with an apparent grudge against the Los Angeles Timess fiercely anti-union ownerof not just one heinous deed but of being part of a terror wave involving hundreds of bombings. While preparation is laid for Americas highest profile trial everand the forces of labor and capital wage hand-to-hand combat in the streetstwo other notable figures are swept into the drama: industry-shaping lmmaker D.W. Griffith, who perceives in these events the possibility of great art and who will go on to alchemize his observations into the landmark film The Birth of a Nation; and crusading lawyer Clarence Darrow, committed to lend his eloquence to the defendants, though he will be driven to thoughts of suicide before events have fully played out.Simultaneously offering the absorbing reading experience of a cant-put-it-down thriller and the perception-altering resonance of a story whose reverberations continue even today, American Lightning is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction.

New York Times bestselling author Howard Blum expertly weaves together three narratives to tell the true story of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush.It is the last decade of the 19th century. The Wild West has been tamed and its fierce, independent and often violent larger-than-life figures--gun-toting wanderers, trappers, prospectors, Indian fighters, cowboys, and lawmen--are now victims of their own success. But then gold is discovered in Alaska and the adjacent Canadian Klondike and a new frontier suddenly looms: an immense unexplored territory filled with frozen waterways, dark spruce forests, and towering mountains capped by glistening layers of snow and ice. In a true-life tale that rivets from the first page, we meet Charlie Siringo, a top-hand sharp-shooting cowboy who becomes one of the Pinkerton Detective Agencys shrewdest; George Carmack, a California-born American Marine whos adopted by an Indian tribe, raises a family with a Taglish squaw, and makes the discovery that starts off the Yukon Gold Rush; and Jefferson "Soapy" Smith, a sly and inventive conman who rules a vast criminal empire.As we follow this trios lives, were led inexorably into a perplexing mystery: a fortune in gold bars has somehow been stolen from the fortress-like Treadwell Mine in Juneau, Alaska. Charlie Siringo discovers that to run the thieves to ground, he must embark on a rugged cross-territory odyssey that will lead him across frigid waters and through a frozen wilderness to face down "Soapy" Smith and his gang of 300 cutthroats. Hanging in the balance: George Carmacks fortune in gold. At once a compelling true-life mystery and an unforgettable portrait of a time in Americas history, The Floor of Heaven is also an exhilarating tribute to the courage and undaunted spirit of the men and women who helped shape America.

The New York Times bestselling author of Dark Invasion and The Last Goodnight once again illuminates the lives of little-known individuals who played a significant role in Americas history as he chronicles the incredible true story of a critical, recently declassified counterintelligence mission and two remarkable agents whose story has been called "the greatest secret of the Cold War."In 1946, genius linguist and codebreaker Meredith Gardner discovered that the KGB was running an extensive network of strategically placed spies inside the United States, whose goal was to infiltrate American intelligence and steal the nations military and atomic secrets. Over the course of the next decade, he and young FBI supervisor Bob Lamphere worked together on Venona, a top-secret mission to uncover the Soviet agents and protect the Holy Grail of Cold War espionagethe atomic bomb.Opposites in nearly every way, Lamphere and Gardner relentlessly followed a trail of clues that helped them identify and take down these Soviet agents one by one, including Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. But at the center of this spy ring, seemingly beyond the American agents grasp, was the mysterious master spy who pulled the strings of the KGBs extensive campaign, dubbed Operation Enormoz by Russian Intelligence headquarters. Lamphere and Gardner began to suspect that a mole buried deep in the American intelligence community was feeding Moscow Center information on Venona. They raced to unmask the traitor and prevent the Soviets from fulfilling Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchevs threat: "We shall bury you!"A breathtaking chapter of American history and a page-turning mystery that plays out against the tense, life-and-death gamesmanship of the Cold War, this twisting thriller begins at the end of World War II and leads all the way to the execution of the Rosenbergsa result that haunted both Gardner and Lamphere to the end of their lives.The Venona Project: Go inside the recently declassified, top-secret mission to decrypt KGB communications and uncover a vast spy network operating on American soil. An Unlikely Partnership: Discover the true story of how a reclusive genius codebreaker and a relentless FBI agent teamed up to hunt a mole buried deep in U.S. intelligence. Atomic Spies: Follow the breathtaking cat-and-mouse chase to protect the secrets of the Manhattan Project and the atomic bomb from a mysterious and brilliant master spy. The Rosenberg Case: Witness the historical chain of events that led from a secret counterintelligence operation all the way to the controversial execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

Howard Blum writes history books that read like thrillers.New York TimesA retired spy gets back into the game to solve a perplexing caseand reconcile with his daughter, a CIA officer who married into the very family that derailed his own CIA careerin this compulsive true-life tale of vindication and redemption, filled with drama, intrigue, and mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Goodnight, Its a real-life thriller whose stunning conclusion will make headline news. On a sunlit morning in September 1978, a sloop drifts aimlessly across the Chesapeake Bay. The cabin reveals signs of a struggle, and classified documents, live 9 mm cartridges, and a top-secret burst satellite communications transmitter are discovered aboard. But where is the boats owner, former CIA officer John Paisley? One man may hold the key to finding out. Tennent Pete Bagley was once a rising star in Americas spy aristocracy, and many expected hed eventually become CIA director. But the star that burned so brightly exploded when Bagleywho suspected a mole had burrowed deep into the agencys corewas believed himself to be the mole. After a year-long investigation, Bagley was finally exonerated, but the accusations tarnished his reputation and tainted his career. When Bagleys daughter Christina, a CIA analyst, married another intelligence officer who was the son of the man who had played a key role in the investigation into Bagley, it caused a painful rift between the two. But then came Paisleys strange death. A murder? Suicide? Or something else? Pete, now a retired spy, launches his own investigation that takes him deep into his own past and his own longtime hunt for a mole. What follows is a relentless pursuit to solve a spy storyand an inspiring tale of a man reclaiming his reputation and his family. Its a very personal quest that leads to a shocking conclusion.The Spy Who Knew Too Much includes 8 pages of black-and-white photographs.

In November, 1944, World War II still raged, but the tide was beginning to shift. The Allies had made significant advances in Europe, and the Battle of the Bulge was about to irreparably harm the German military. At this time, the British government agreed to send a brigade of five thousand Jewish volunteers from Palestine to Europe to join the fight. At the wars end, the Palestinian brigade witnessed the horrors suffered by their fellow Jews, and embarked on a campaign of vengeance. But a chance encounter turned the soldiers away from violence and towards a more peaceful mission rescuing Jewish war orphans. The Brigade is a thrilling historical adventure about how a Jewish army proved they could be victorious in both war and peace.Howard Blum is the bestselling author of five critically acclaimed nonfiction books, including Wanted! The Search for Nazis in America, Gangland, and The Gold of Exodus. As a reporter for the New York Times, Howard Blum was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Currently he is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. Mr. Blum lives with his wife and three children in Connecticut.Howard Blums remarkably written and documented The Brigade is more than a story about memory, justice and vengeance; it is a moving evocation of events and people whose tears and dreams will continue to haunt humanity for centuries to come. Elie Wiesel, Nobel Laureate and author of Night

Instant New York Times BestsellerCompelling. . . . Blum capably maintains the suspense and thoughtfully probes into the motives of key players in this intriguing yet profoundly unsettling story.Kirkus Reviews"The definitive, inside story of the Idaho murders from acclaimed bestselling author Howard Blum, whose groundbreaking coverage of the story was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.Timed for a trial that will capture national attention, When the Night Comes Falling examines the mysterious murders of the four University of Idaho students. Having covered this case from its start, Edgar award winning investigative reporter Howard Blum takes readers behind the scenes of the police manhunt that eventually led to suspected killer, Bryan Christopher Kohberger, and uncovered larger, lurid questions within this unthinkable tragedy.Reminiscent of the panoramic portraiture of In Cold Blood and The Executioners Song, When the Night Comes Falling offers a suspenseful, richly detailed narrative that will have readers transfixed. This definitive account from a master of investigative journalism reveals:The Police Manhunt: Go inside the massive, multi-state investigation that raced against time to find a killer before he could strike again. A Suspect in Plain Sight: Uncover the story of Bryan Christopher Kohberger, the criminology PhD candidate who hid among the very people studying his alleged crimes. Breakthrough DNA Evidence: Follow the cutting-edge forensic trail, from a single cell of touch DNA on a knife sheath to the genealogical science that cracked the case. Meticulous Investigative Journalism: Experience the definitive account from Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter Howard Blum, reminiscent of classics like In Cold Blood.