Scott Pedersen's Reviews > The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective

Before I read this well-written book, I didn't know the anarchist movement of the early 1900s was such a high-profile phenomenon. While sharing the extreme selfishness of most political-extremist movements, the anarchists were a different flavor of nutty, using Nobel's powerful invention, dynamite, to kill and destroy. Highly recommended.