Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve (The Wall Street Journal) this is
the definitive account of the disastrous siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco Texas
featuring never-before-seen documents photographs and interviews from former investigative
reporter Jeff Guinn bestselling author of Manson and The Road to Jonestown. For the first time
in thirty years more than a dozen former ATF agents who participated in the initial February
28 1993 Waco raid speak on the record about the poor decisions of their commanders that led
to this deadly confrontation. The revelations in this book include why the FBI chose to end the
siege with the use of CS gas how both ATF and FBI officials tried and failed to cover up their
agencies' mistakes where David Koresh plagiarized his infamous prophecies and direct links
between the Branch Davidian tragedy and the modern militia movement in America. Notorious
conspiracist Alex Jones is a part of the Waco story. So much is new and stunning. Guinn puts
you alongside the ATF agents as they embarked on the disastrous initial assault unaware that
the Davidians knew they were coming and were armed and prepared to resist. His you-are-there
narrative continues to the final assault and its momentous consequences. Drawing on this new
information including several eyewitness accounts Guinn again does what he did with his
bestselling books about Charles Manson and Jim Jones revealing gripping (Houston Chronicle)
new details about a story that we thought we knew.
