Combining the pulsating drive of Showtime's Homeland with the
fascinating historical detail of such of narrative nonfiction
bestsellers as Double Cross and In the Garden of Beasts, Dark
Invasion is Howard Blum's gritty, high-energy true-life tale of German
espionage and terror on American soil during World War I, and the NYPD
Inspector who helped uncover the plot--the basis for the film to be
produced by and starring Bradley Cooper.
When a "neutral" United States becomes a trading partner for the Allies
early in World War I, the Germans implement a secret plan to strike
back. A team of saboteurs--including an expert on germ warfare, a
Harvard professor, and a brilliant, debonair spymaster--devise a series
of "mysterious accidents" using explosives and biological weapons, to
bring down vital targets such as ships, factories, livestock, and even
captains of industry like J. P. Morgan.
New York Police Inspector Tom Tunney, head of the department's Bomb
Squad, is assigned the difficult mission of stopping them. Assembling a
team of loyal operatives, the cunning Irish cop hunts for the
conspirators among a population of more than eight million Germans. But
the deeper he finds himself in this labyrinth of deception, the more
Tunney realizes that the enemy's plan is far more complex and more
dangerous than he suspected.
Full of drama and intensity, illustrated with eight pages of black
and-white photos, Dark Invasion is riveting war thriller that
chillingly echoes our own time.
