{"product_id":"blow-the-house-down-9781400098361","title":"Blow the House Down","description":"Former CIA operative Robert Baer pushes fiction to the absolute limit in this riveting and unnervingly plausible alternative history of 9\/11. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVeteran CIA officer Max Waller has long been obsessed with the abduction and murder of his Agency mentor. Though years of digging yield the name of a suspect--an Iranian math genius turned terrorist--the trail seems too cold to justify further effort. Then Max turns up a photograph of the man standing alongside Osama bin Laden and a mysterious westerner whose face has been cut out, feeding Max's suspicion. When the first official to whom Max shows the photo winds up dead, the out-of-favor agent suddenly finds himself the target of dark forces within the intelligence community who are desperate to muzzle him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEluding a global surveillance net, Max--in the summer of 2001--begins tracking the spore of a complex conspiracy, meeting clandestinely with suicide bombers and Arab royalty and ultimately realizing the Iranian he'd sought for a decades-old crime is actually at the nexus of a terrifying plot. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShowing off dazzling tradecraft and an array of richly textured backdrops, and filled with real names and events, \u003ci\u003eBlow the House Down\u003c\/i\u003e deftly balances fact and possibility to become the first great thriller to spring from the war on terrorism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlso available as a Random House AudioBook and an eBook\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Crown Publishing Group (NY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/02\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400098361\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.28w x 0.71d","brand":"Robert Baer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45369945096373,"sku":"9781400098361","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_35c766d4-cd7c-4682-9d2e-1bbcb3d3b5bf.jpg?v=1747108924","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/blow-the-house-down-9781400098361","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}