Michele R. McPhee, Maximum Harm: The Tsarnaev Brothers, The FBI, and the Road to the Marathon Bombing (ForeEdge, 2017)

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  • Tim J Wilson CSTPV, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews

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https://doi.org/10.15664/jtr.1423

Abstract

At 2.49 p.m. on April 15 2013 two home-made bombs wreaked carnage at the annual Boston Marathon. As a symbolic target of jihadist terror, the marathon’s finishing line area was particularly well chosen: a crowd celebrating individual runners’ achievements under an array of international flags symbolised an entire Western-led global order. Three died in these explosions; hundreds more were injured (of whom no less than 17 lost limbs). Two more policemen were to die in the four-day manhunt that followed before the bombers, Chechen-American brothers, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, were finally stopped. General rejoicing greeted the news that Tamerlan had been killed, and Dzhokhar arrested. As Michele McPhee comments simply: ‘I know a lot of police officers who didn’t have to pay for a round of beers that night’ (p. viii).

Author Biography

Tim J Wilson, CSTPV, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews

Dr Tim Wilson is the Director for the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence and a Senior Lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews

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2017-10-12

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Vol. 8 No. 3 (2017)

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