TERRORISM AND COUNTERTERRORISM: A COMPREHENSIVE INTRODUCTION TO ACTORS AND ACTIONS By Henry Prunckun and Troy Whitford Lynne Rienner Publishers, $85 (hardcover), $35 (paperback), 269 pages The ...

SECURING THE STATE By David Omand Columbia University Press, $29.50, 320 pages Few books on national security become instant classics in their field. Sir David Omand’s brilliantly insightful and ...

Author Ron Suskind appears to have hit the mark with his reporting in a newly published book about an abortive 2003 Al Qaeda plot to attack the New York City subway system with homemade cyanide bombs.

The book, entitled “Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction,” was authored by respected British historian Charles Townshend, is part of a series that has sold millions of copies worldwide and, ...