What happens when German spies collaborate to unleash a campaign of terror upon America at the start of World War I?
In
Dark Invasion: 1915, a New York City policeman uncovers a German plot to sabotage ships, factories, and even J.P Morgan himself.
Howard Blum tells a gripping, true story of espionage and terror on American soil during World War I and the Irish cop who hunted for the conspirators among a population of more than 8 million Germans.
Blum is the author of
The New York Times bestseller and Edgar Award-winning
American Lightning. He is a contributing editor at
Vanity Fair and has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting.
Co-presented by the
Kansas City Public Library and the
National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial.
This event is part of
The Great War | Great Read.