* The Author Led the Federal Forensics Investigations of the Most Notorious Bombings Our Times: Oklahoma City, the USS Cole, the Boston Marathon, Manchester, Syria, Beirut, the US Embassy in Peru, the Collar Bomber-Dr. Kirk Yeager has nearly thirty years of global experience, and the stories that go with it.
* Combination of Terrorist and Lone Wolf Bombings: From Timothy McVeigh to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and beyond, the author explores the differences in bombmaking, execution, and motives behind bombers.
* Forensic Science Plus Thrilling Action: Gives readers the highest expert insight into the science, history, and sociology that underlies bomb investigation while taking readers to the blast zones in America and the Middle East, and even alongside law enforcement literally hot on the trail of serial bombers poised to strike again.
* Number of Bombing Crimes in U.S. and World Per Year: According to the United States Bomb Data Center, in 2019 there were 14,940 explosives-related incidents in the country, of which 251 were bombings. There were 7,298 recoveries reported, and a total of 5,482 suspicious/unattended package incidents.
* Unequaled Author Credentials in Bomb Forensics: The first working FBI official granted permission to share these BSI stories while still at the agency, Dr. Yeager is the Bureau’s Chief Explosives Agent, and has been awarded the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal and two FBI Director’s Awards.
* A Healthy Dose of Humor: Yeager has a wry and darkly humorous voice, especially as he describes his laboratory and field tests (blowing things up!).
* Author Appearances and Articles: Yeager has presented more than 200 talks at international meetings and conferences, and he will continue to do so. Plus, he has produced more than 80 specialty publications in the area of explosives and IEDs.
