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Maximum Harm: The Tsarnaev Brothers, the FBI, and the Road to the Marathon Bombing

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Winner of the Jennie F. McLauthlen Award for Lifelong Learning

In Maximum Harm, veteran investigative journalist Michele R. McPhee unravels the complex story at the back of the public facts of the Boston Marathon bombing. She examines the bombers’ roots in Dagestan and Chechnya, their struggle to assimilate in The us, and their growing hatred of the US—a deepening antagonism that would prompt federal prosecutors to dub Dzhokhar Tsarnaev “The us’s worst nightmare.” The difficulties faced by the Tsarnaev family of Cambridge, Massachusetts, are a part of the public record. Circumstances less widely known are the FBI’s recruitment of the older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, as a “mosque crawler” to inform on radical separatists here and in Chechnya; the tracking down and killing of radical Islamic separatists throughout the six months he spent in Russia—go back and forth that raised eyebrows, since he used to be on several terrorist watchlists; the FBI’s botched deals and broken promises with regard to his immigration; and the disenchantment, rage, and growing radicalization of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar, together with their mother, sisters, and Tamerlan’s wife, Katherine.

Maximum Harm could also be a compelling examination of the Tsarnaev brothers’ movements in the days leading up to the Boston Marathon bombing on April 15, 2013, the subsequent investigation, the Tsarnaevs’ murder of MIT police officer Sean Collier, the high-speed chase and shootout that killed Tamerlan, and the manhunt in which the authorities after all captured Dzhokhar, hiding in a Watertown backyard. McPhee untangles the many threads of circumstance, coincidence, collusion, motive, and opportunity that resulted in the deadliest attack on the city of Boston to date.

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