{"product_id":"fires-in-the-night-the-earth-liberation-front-the-fbi-and-a-secret-history-of-eco-sabotage","title":"Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the Fbi, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAdvance Praise for \u003ci\u003eFires in the Night\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Wolfe centers his in-depth study of American eco-terrorism on the Earth Liberation Front. But more than just an account of the F.B.I.'s clashes with that Pacific Northwest group, this is a larger story of the questions surrounding radical resistance, both during the late 1990s and today.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A gripping history of '90s eco-terror . . . Given we live in the age of Standing Rock, Just Stop Oil, and \n\u003ci\u003eHow to Blow Up a Pipeline\u003c\/i\u003e, it's funny much the campaign of animal liberation and arson waged by the Earth Liberation Front in the 1990s and early 2000s has been overlooked . . . Matthew Wolfe's comprehensive new book, a meticulously reported history of the ELF and its major actions, told with the cooperation of many of the main American cell's core members, changes that . . . Gripping and fascinating.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Max Read, via his newsletter\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"At once a cinematically propulsive narrative, a herculean feat of reporting, and a sweeping work of modern environmental history, this book is a marvel. Wolfe has taken a great, fearless bite out of the American soul, and it burns.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Robert Moor, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eOn Trails\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIn Trees\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" \n\u003ci\u003eFires in the Night\u003c\/i\u003e is cinematic, suspenseful, totally immersive. This is nonfiction as film noir. Matthew Wolfe's unbelievably meticulous reporting puts us inside the minds and meetings of a secretive group fighting, as they see it, for the life of the planet.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Zoë Schlanger, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Light Eaters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Masterful reporting. As riveting as any thriller. Reads like a nonfiction novel starring idealistic radicals, righteously incensed by environmental injustice, on a doomed trajectory towards confrontation with the capitalist state. A forgotten prequel to 9\/11 that couldn't be more relevant today.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Seth Harp, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fort Bragg Cartel \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"In the 1990s, as the planet was warming and the world was in denial, a group of activists intent on preventing ecological collapse flocked to the Pacific Northwest to mount a radical response. \n\u003ci\u003eFires in the Night\u003c\/i\u003e is a riveting story of what happened when they tried to spark a political awakening in America, and a brilliant meditation on how a social movement draws its own moral lines.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Eric Klinenberg, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling co-author of \u003ci\u003eModern Romance\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePalaces for the People \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A fascinating history of the Earth Liberation Front . . . Wolfe captures the urgency that gave rise to the group and poses potent questions about the ethical boundaries of extremism. Readers will be rapt.\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003cbr\u003e--Publishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A searching history of a group of saboteurs whom the FBI once deemed 'the country's foremost domestic terrorism threat.' . . . A solid work of investigative journalism.\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Kirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMatthew Wolfe\u003c\/b\u003e's reporting has appeared in \n\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eNational Geographic, \u003c\/i\u003eand \n\u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e. He was previously a national fel­low at New America. He has a PhD in sociology from New York University, where he is currently a fellow at NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Cinematic, suspenseful, totally immersive.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Zoë Schlanger, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Light Eaters\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This book is a marvel.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Robert Moor, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eOn Trails\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIn Trees\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Masterful reporting. As riveting as any thriller.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Seth Harp, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fort Bragg Cartel\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe explosive true story of a secret group of radicals who launched a clandestine battle to save the planet--and what their legacy illuminates about the past, present, and future of the environmental movement\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the early hours of October 28, 1996, a driver in rural Oregon spotted flames rising from a federal ranger station. Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze, but not before discovering a cryptic phrase spray-painted on a nearby wall: \"EARTH LIBERATION FRONT.\" Over the next decade, the Earth Liberation Front would carry out the most audacious series of politically motivated arsons in American history. Their targets--car dealerships, slaughterhouses, lumber companies, a $12 million Vail ski resort--were chosen to send a message: if the government wouldn't halt the destruction of the natural world, they would. Despite causing no deaths, the ELF would soon be branded the foremost domestic terrorism threat in America and become the target of one of the FBI's largest investigations. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eFires in the Night\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive story of the ELF's rise and unraveling, stretching from the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest to the Seattle streets of 1999's legendary WTO protests to the paranoid aftermath of September 11. For years, members of ELF, many of them close friends, led double lives, meticulously planning and staging their attacks, using secret book clubs, dead drops, and anonymous communiques, while trying to manage interpersonal friction and stay one step ahead of a relentless task force of police and federal agents. Drawing on years of original reporting and interviews, including with reclusive activists breaking their silence for the first time, as well as thousands of pages of unreleased investigative files, journalist Matthew Wolfe offers a thrilling, intimate account of a moment in American life when the actions of radical environmentalists challenged mainstream complacency. 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