{"product_id":"book-au8s","title":"Lightning Out of Lebanon","description":"Before September 11, 2001, one terrorist group had killed more Americans than any other: Hezbollah, the “Party of God.” Today it remains potentially more dangerous than even al Qaeda. Yet little has been known about its inner workings, past successes, and future plans–until now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten by an accomplished journalist and a law-enforcement expert, \u003ci\u003eLightning Out of Lebanon \u003c\/i\u003eis a chilling and essential addition to our understanding of the external and internal threats to America. In disturbing detail, it portrays the degree to which Hezbollah has infiltrated this country and the extent to which it intends to do us harm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormed in Lebanon by Iranian Revolutionary Guards in 1982, Hezbollah is fueled by hatred of Israel and the United States. Its 1983 truck-bomb attack against the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut killed 241 soldiers–the largest peacetime loss ever for the U.S. military–and caused President Reagan to withdraw all troops from Lebanon. Since then, among other atrocities, Hezbollah has murdered Americans at the U.S. embassy in Lebanon and the Khobar Towers U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia; tortured and killed the CIA station chief in Beirut; held organizational meetings with top members of al Qaeda–including Osama bin Laden–and established sleeper cells in the United States and Canada.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLightning Out of Lebanon \u003c\/i\u003ereveals how, starting in 1982, a cunning and deadly Hezbollah terrorist named Mohammed Youssef Hammoud operated a cell in Charlotte, North Carolina, under the radar of American intelligence. The story of how FBI special agent Rick Schwein captured him in 2002 is a brilliantly researched and written account.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet the past is only prologue in the unsettling odyssey of Hezbollah. Using their exclusive sources in the Middle East and inside the U.S. counterterrorism establishment, the authors of \u003ci\u003eLightning Out of Lebanon\u003c\/i\u003e imagine the deadly future of Hezbollah and posit how best to combat the group which top American counterintelligence officials and Senator Bob Graham, vice-chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, have called “the A Team of terrorism.”","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49341165699376,"sku":"BDau8s","price":7.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/222713-au8s-Square.jpg?v=1734055576","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-au8s","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}