In October 2002, a nation still recovering from the 9/11 attacks found itself under siege once more — by an unseen, unknown, and seemingly unstoppable enemy. For 23 days, the area around Washington, D.C., was the hunting ground for a pair of serial snipers who struck at random, killing from afar, only to vanish time and time again. With each attack, they raised the stakes, taunting the authorities to try to stop them — until their luck ran out. Here, from veteran reporter Angie Cannon and the staff of U.S. News & World Report, comes the complete story of one of the most heinous crimes in American history — a chronicle of the harrowing days in October that took ten innocent lives and wounded three others; the means and methods used by law enforcement — and their mistakes; the suspects’ backgrounds and possible motives; and the fear that gripped a region of five million people and the effect these shocking acts of terror continue to have on American society.
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A Well-Rounded Overview I liked ’23 Days of Terror.’It was, for me, easy to read, with a neutral, objective narrative that didn’t get in the way of the facts. Substance-wise, the book is, first, a reasonably comprehensive record of the “Beltway Sniper” crisis and its main actors, with a good mixture of background, biographical context, and other pertinent facts. More importantly, however, is what lies between the book’s lines: namely, the lessons that can be learned from the crimes, as well as our…
Wow Respectful of the victims, fair minded about law enforcement ‘s investigation, I can’t recommend this book enough. The only issue is there’s no update for what happened after the trials.
The whole story of the beltway snipers The book told the story of the Beltway snipers. Words can’t accurately describe what those two did and all the pain, suffering and loss of life they caused. The book tells the whole story, something I was unable to find elsewhere.