Facts about what I remember:

1. Book was read between 1985 and 2001.
2. Fiction
3. Terrorist cells operating in the USA.

Things I don't remember:
1. Title
2. Author
3. Good Guy characters. (probably critical to finding the book!)

Things about the book I remember:
1. Terrorist cell cuts main power line across the Potomac River to D.C., hide in the woods and then kill responding line repair crews.
2. Terrorists With explosives, drop a bridge across the D.C. beltway at rush hour.
3. Terrorists Detonate an explosives laden truck across the Golden Gate Bridge.
4. Terrorists Detonate a fuel tanker truck under a major overpass in downtown Chicago.
5. Terrorists Massacre black elementary school kids at recess at an inner-city school, while insuring local residents see the "KKK" symbols, in order to set off a race war.
6. Terrorists attempt to use shoulder launched antiaircraft missile to take down a passenger aircraft.


During the period of 1985 to 2001, I was reading tons of books, sometimes 3 at a time. Almost all of the books were in Hard Cover from the like of Tom Clancy, Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, Dale Brown, etc. Unfortunately, in 2001, my wife and I sold, gave away or threw out everything that was not "required" as we left on our 8 year trip in an RV.

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Not the book you are thinking of, but if you'd like to read one with a very similar plot line, check out Forstchen's Day of Wrath.

You'll be ordering more ammo and cleaning your rifle before you put it down.

I remember the book.

I thought it was "the enemy within" but I can't find it under that title.

There is a book called the Enemy Within by Larry Bond. might be it..

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Originally posted by SBrooks:
There is a book called the Enemy Within by Larry Bond. might be it..

That's it! Thank you very much. I've already purchased it and added it to my KOBO library. A quick read of the prologue took me right to the fuel tanker on the Golden Gate bridge.

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Originally posted by SBrooks:
There is a book called the Enemy Within by Larry Bond. might be it..

I looked at that but I could not tell by the synopsis if it was the correct book.

It is a book in which the terrorist plots are burned forever in my skull full of mush. I used these plots as a basis to develop additional more devastating scenarios for department training. I actually scared the hell out of my officers.