The Wolf in the Door

Militant Islam Reaches America, by Daniel Pipes (Norton, 256 pp., $25.95)

ON September 13, 2002, southern Florida was closed down after a Shoney’s customer told police she suspected that three of her fellow diners were Islamist terrorists. On the same day, FBI agents broke up a bona fide al-Qaeda sleeper ring operating out of Lackawanna, N.Y. People wishing to make sense of both events would do well to consult this new book by Daniel Pipes—an extraordinarily useful compendium of basic information and analysis that is easily readable by the non-specialist, yet engaging for scholars as well.

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James S. Robbins

James S. Robbins is a senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council.

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Militant Islam Reaches America, by Daniel Pipes (Norton, 256 pp., $25.95)

ON September 13, 2002, southern Florida was closed down after a Shoney’s customer told police she suspected that three of her fellow diners were Islamist terrorists. On the same day, FBI agents broke up a bona fide al-Qaeda sleeper ring operating out of Lackawanna, N.Y. People wishing to make sense of both events would do well to consult this new book by Daniel Pipes—an extraordinarily useful compendium of basic information and analysis that is easily readable by the non-specialist, yet engaging for scholars as well.