O chem Mozhno li raz i navsegda iskorenit takoe strashnoe yavlenie kak terrorizm, unosyashchii zhizni i prostykh grazhdan, i ispolnitelei teraktov? Kakovy sotsialnye, politicheskie i ekonomicheskie prichiny terrorizma? Kto eto lyudi, chleny terroristicheskikh organizatsii i odinochki, gotovye rasstatsya s zhiznyu vo imya prizrachnogo «obshchego blaga» i tumannykh, chasto neponyatnykh im samim lozungov? Kak organizovany prestupnye terroristicheskie soobshchestva, chto proiskhodit vnutri nikh? I mozhno li predotvratit terakt, uznat o gotovyashchemsya prestuplenii zaranee, chtoby ono ne okazalos stol zhe neozhidannym i razrushitelnym kak tornado? Nakonets, kak pomoch lyudyam, reshivshim pokinut prestupnoe soobshchestvo, i mozhno li vernut ikh k normalnoi zhizni? Vse eti voprosy rassmatrivayutsya v knige Dzhona Khorgana, mnogo let izuchayushchego fenomen terrorizma v kachestve i rassledovatelya, i akademicheskogo uchenogo.