Fires in the night : the Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a secret history of eco-sabotage / Matthew Wolfe.
| Author/creator | Wolfe, Matthew author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York, NY : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2026] |
| Copyright Date | ©2026 |
| Description | 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a secret history of eco-sabotage |
| Physical medium | illustration |
| Contents | A Call to Arms -- Playing the Game -- Hotshots -- The Judas Horse -- Talk Doesn't Cook Rice -- On Behalf of the Lynx -- Violent Aberrants -- Masa La Flambeau -- Praxis -- Land of the Lost -- A Symphony of Car Alarms -- You Cannot Control What Is Wild -- Double Whammy -- Cold Sun -- The Hanged Man -- Family -- Methods of Disguise -- First One on the Bus -- Fires in the Night -- After the Catastrophe. |
| Abstract | "In the early hours of October 28, 1996, a driver in rural Oregon spotted flames rising from a federal ranger station. Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze, but not before discovering a cryptic phrase spray-painted on a nearby wall: "EARTH LIBERATION FRONT." Over the next decade, the Earth Liberation Front would carry out the most audacious series of politically motivated arsons in American history. Their targets-car dealerships, slaughterhouses, lumber companies, a $12 million Vail ski resort-were chosen to send a message: if the government wouldn't halt the destruction of the natural world, they would. Despite causing no deaths, the ELF would soon be branded the foremost domestic terrorism threat in America and become the target of one of the FBI's largest investigations. Fires in the Night is the definitive story of the ELF's rise and unraveling, stretching from the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest to the Seattle streets of 1999's legendary WTO protests to the paranoid aftermath of September 11. For years, members of ELF, many of them close friends, led double lives, meticulously planning and staging their attacks, using secret book clubs, dead drops, and anonymous communiques, while trying to manage interpersonal friction and stay one step ahead of a relentless task force of police and federal agents. Drawing on years of original reporting and interviews, including with reclusive activists breaking their silence for the first time, as well as thousands of pages of unreleased investigative files, journalist Matthew Wolfe offers a thrilling, intimate account of a moment in American life when the actions of radical environmentalists challenged mainstream complacency. As the climate crisis continues to accelerate, Wolfe asks the most pressing question of our time: facing the end of the world as we know it, exactly what kind of resistance is justified?"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | "Portions of this work originally appeared in a different form in the article 'The Rise and Fall of America's Environmentalist Underground' published in The New York Times Magazine on May 26, 2022"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-344) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Wolfe, Matthew Fires in the night New York, NY : Viking, [2026] 9780593654569 |
| Genre/form | Informational works. |
| Genre/form | Documents d'information. |
| LCCN | 2026018870 |
| ISBN | 9780593654552 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0593654552 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Joyner | New Books | GE197 .W65 2026 | ✔ Available | Want This? |