Terror Threat

Terror Threat: International and Homegrown Terrorists and Their Threat to Canada by Dwight Hamilton

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


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Essentially the message of this book is there are a large number of unpleasant people and groups out there who would like to see you dead so it's important to be cautious. That's probably true but they don't seem to be particularly effective. This book was published in 2007 and the number of incidents of terrorism in North America in the last 13 years have been pretty low considering all the techniques and targets described by the authors. Maybe they figure we in North America are perfectly capable of self-destructing without their assistance and to a large extent that appears to be the case. It may also suggest CSIS in Canada and the FBI in the United States are doing a pretty good job. In any event, it seems the threat described in this book is just a bit over stated. I'm not certain most people would derive a great deal from reading it. On the other hand, for authors, particularly those writing thrillers, Terror Threat is a darn good reference manual. It illustrates all sorts of methodologies and in the appendix documents any number of groups for the author to use. In addition it's well written and easy to read.



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