{"product_id":"fires-in-the-night-the-earth-liberation-front-the-fbi-and-a-secret-history-of-eco-sabotage","title":"Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the Fbi, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Matthew Wolfe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eViking\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6\/23\/2026, hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9780593654552\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe explosive true story of a secret group of radicals who launched a clandestine battle to save the planet--and what their legacy illuminates about the past, present, and future of the environmental movement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFires in the Night\u003c\/i\u003e 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFires in the Night\u003c\/i\u003e is cinematic, suspenseful, totally immersive. This is nonfiction as film noir. Matthew Wolfe's unbelievably meticulous reporting puts us inside the minds and meetings of a secretive group fighting, as they see it, for the life of the planet.\" -- Zoë Schlanger, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/the-light-eaters-how-the-unseen-world-of-plant-intelligence-offers-a-new-understanding-of-life-on-earth-copy\" title=\"The Light Eaters\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Light Eaters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Masterful reporting. As riveting as any thriller. Reads like a nonfiction novel starring idealistic radicals, righteously incensed by environmental injustice, on a doomed trajectory towards confrontation with the capitalist state. A forgotten prequel to 9\/11 that couldn't be more relevant today.\" -- Seth Harp, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/the-fort-bragg-cartel-drug-trafficking-and-murder-in-the-special-forces?_su_rec=nPX5JN9RLfCGbivVHWJ-55s6ksXDOwID04nHPlne0EKXYdPDPQyyPEr802GvoTrOlo8_C3jTlnkcuP4kTCKNDII4lgE-1nG8kpitQ2pZQg0y05tlPfLSujTCtEnyZXp67tkhe8XwlvWQk7xFEZxXbFG1sBUi1l3WJKr6iP5_5ChxaojdbNI9hPma8z9vWDNMbNk1beSPOnuIQvAfHzz9SibfYKH4z9Kt94LcGuayT0IABTzB0rGTc2MdbkWv\u0026amp;_su_rec_id=a8229a20-ae7b-4f5b-97cc-09a991c10ead-1781821538\" title=\"Fort Bragg Cartel\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Fort Bragg Cartel \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A gripping history of '90s eco-terror... Given we live in the age of Standing Rock, Just Stop Oil, and \u003ci\u003eHow to Blow Up a Pipeline\u003c\/i\u003e, it's funny much the campaign of animal liberation and arson waged by the Earth Liberation Front in the 1990s and early 2000s has been overlooked... Matthew Wolfe's comprehensive new book, a meticulously reported history of the ELF and its major actions, told with the cooperation of many of the main American cell's core members, changes that... Gripping and fascinating.\" -- Max Read, via his newsletter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatthew Wolfe\u003c\/b\u003e's reporting has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e. He was previously a national fel­low at New America. He has a PhD in sociology from New York University, where he is currently a fellow at NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52373960950043,"sku":"Fires in the Night","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/files\/916_QH5XnxL._SL1500.jpg?v=1781817634","url":"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/fires-in-the-night-the-earth-liberation-front-the-fbi-and-a-secret-history-of-eco-sabotage","provider":"Burning Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}