This week’s Newsmax Rising Bestsellers features a cross pollination in a sense, with a novelist cowriting a compelling work of nonfiction, and a nonfiction writer cowriting a novel. Among the nonfiction works, there is a deep dive into the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, and another describing the life of a special forces warrior both during and after combat. Additionally, there is an examination of the 2022 grisly murders of four female University of Idaho students, and a look at the use of political power — for good or evil. The fiction offering is a legal thriller, co-authored by one who’s been there.
“Blowback: The Untold Story of the FBI and the Oklahoma City Bombing,” by Margaret Roberts (Bombardier Books)
This tells the untold story of the deadliest domestic terror attack in U.S. history, which occurred 30 years ago in downtown Oklahoma City, the center of America’s heartland. History tells us that the massive bomb targeting the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people, including 15 children in their daycare center, was the work of a lone-wolf terrorist — Timothy McVeigh, a 26-year-old Gulf War Army veteran. But history sometimes gets things wrong. Twenty-four eyewitnesses claimed there was a second man who rode with McVeigh in the truck carrying the bomb, but the FBI investigators said all 24 must have been mistake and called off the manhunt for “John Doe 2.” This didn’t smell right to the author, an award-winning journalist, so she dug deeper, and “Blowback” is the result of her digging. “I ordered Margaret Robert’s ‘Blowback’ after listening to her give a compelling overview of the book on the Tucker Carlson podcast,” wrote Kimberly Riva for Amazon. “Roberts is a skilled writer and despite her work being one of investigative nonfiction, she has managed to write a gripping account of the largest domestic act of terrorism in United States history that reads like a surreal novel.” [Nonfiction]“Forged in Chaos: A Warrior’s Origin Story,” by Tyler Grey and Lauren Ungeldi (Knox Press)
Read more at Newsmax© 2025 Newsmax. All rights reserved.
