When Terror Returns

Before the Boston Marathon bombings, most people in the United States were unfamiliar with Chechnya, much less its ties to terrorism. But that all changed when two young Chechen brothers detonated two bombs during the race that killed three and injured more than 200.

From the author of Terror at Beslan comes When Terror Returns. To write this book, terrorism scholar and author John Giduck examined terrorist attacks of the past to learn what they can tell us about terrorism in general. Primarily, he focused the mindsets of the terrorists to produce a predictive model for future threats, as well as formulate ways to mitigate and respond to these attacks. Giduck wrote this book because, though he didn't know where it would rear its ugly head, terrorism would return to the United States. He was right.

"When Terror Returns in teh masterpiece of one of the great warrior scholars of our time. John Giduck has established himself as "the" irrefutable world expert on the brutal and horrific Beslan school seige in Russia. Now he has applied his skills to inform and forewarn us, with a tour de force of the evolution of terrorist mass-hostage seige tactics in teh Modern Era of terrorism."

—Lt. Col. (ret) Dave Grossman