Michael Gann’s attempt to plan a mass-casualty incident in New York City came to pass with the terrifying accuracy of a nightmare that was only barely avoided. Those who keep an eye on the data points that the rest of the world overlooks frequently draw the line in the shadows between a typical Tuesday and a generational disaster in the high-stakes realm of counterterrorism. For Michael Gann, the goal was to completely destabilize the most famous city in the country; for local and federal investigators, it was a race against a time that only Gann knew was running out.
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