The Detonators is a nonfiction audiobook that tells the story of the 1916 Black Tom Island explosion in New York Harbor caused by German saboteurs during World War I. It follows three lawyers, John McCloy, Peaslee, and Martin, who made it their mission to solve the mystery of the attack and hold Germany responsible, which they barely accomplished before World War II. The book also portrays this time period when the rising American establishment engaged more with the world, and is a love story between John and Ellen McCloy. It provides the first full account of the attack and cover-up, which still resonates in a post-9/11 America.

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In 1916, while the Allied and Central forces waged war in Europe, a group of German saboteurs blew up Black Tom
Island, a spit of land in New York Harbor within earshot of downtown Manhattan. The subsequent hail of missiles and
gunpowder devastated much of lower Manhattan. The attack­so massive that as far away as Maryland people could
feel the ground shake­had been shockingly easy. America was littered with networks of German agents, hiding in full
daylight, an enemy within plotting further, deadlier attacks. All the way up to the president, officials had known
something like this could happen, and yet nothing had been done.
Twenty years later, the German government had still managed to evade responsibility for the crime­and probably
would have continued to, were it not for the determination of three lawyers named McCloy, Peaslee, and Martin.
These men­most crucially the young John McCloy­made it their mission to solve a mystery that began during the first
World War and barely ended before the second. The Detonators is a fascinating portrait of these men and their time,
an era in which the rising American establishment engaged the world. It is also the dramatic love story of John and
Ellen McCloy, and the first full accounting of a crime and a cover­up that resonates strongly in a post­9/11 America.

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