{"product_id":"book-aw5n","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Veteran 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Eluding 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Showing 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.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49340672082224,"sku":"BDaw5n","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/185614-aw5n-Square.jpg?v=1734046818","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-aw5n","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}