Blowback
The Untold Story of the FBI and the Oklahoma City Bombing
Published on 14. August 2025
Book
Hardback
400 pages
979-8-88845-842-6 (ISBN)
Description
The breakout investigative work on the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing featured on The Tucker Carlson Show, Newt's World, Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec, The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer, ZeroHedge, Just the News, Judicial Watch's On Watch, and Federalist Radio Hour, among others.
"This isn't just history rhyming. This is history repeating itself." - Senator Ron Johnson
"Astonishing story...deserves to be a bestseller." - Newt Gingrich
"It lays out piece by piece a staggering case." - Jack Posobiec
"A great book." - Tucker Carlson
Tragedy unfolded on April 19, 1995, when a massive bomb exploded in America's Heartland, killing 168 people, including 15 children in their daycare center.
Thirty years later, it still stands as America's deadliest domestic terror attack.
History says the Oklahoma City bombing was a lone-wolf terror by Timothy McVeigh, a twenty-six-year-old Gulf War Army veteran.
Yet the FBI never captured the second suspect who rode next to McVeigh in the bomb truck. Soon the Bureau canceled its global manhunt for "John Doe 2," claiming twenty-four eyewitnesses who saw him with McVeigh were mistaken.
None of this rings true to award-winning journalist Margaret Roberts. As former news director of America's Most Wanted, she worked high-profile manhunts alongside the FBI. How could so many witnesses be wrong?
Blowback chronicles Roberts's investigation into a baffling prison murder mystery wrapped inside the Oklahoma City bombing case. In pursuit of answers, she conducts journalism's only face-to-face prison interviews with McVeigh co-conspirator Terry Nichols.
Contrary to the official story of lone-wolf terror, Roberts uncovers evidence of a sprawling neo-Nazi plot behind the bombing in which the FBI played a hidden role. Then, while covering its tracks, the FBI allowed terror suspects to walk free, denied the bombing victims justice, and hid the truth from all of us.
After an FBI whistleblower steps forward, Roberts puts the puzzle together, though one burning mystery remains: The FBI has kept surveillance videotape of McVeigh's accomplice locked away all these years. Is John Doe 2 the FBl's guilty secret?
"This isn't just history rhyming. This is history repeating itself." - Senator Ron Johnson
"Astonishing story...deserves to be a bestseller." - Newt Gingrich
"It lays out piece by piece a staggering case." - Jack Posobiec
"A great book." - Tucker Carlson
Tragedy unfolded on April 19, 1995, when a massive bomb exploded in America's Heartland, killing 168 people, including 15 children in their daycare center.
Thirty years later, it still stands as America's deadliest domestic terror attack.
History says the Oklahoma City bombing was a lone-wolf terror by Timothy McVeigh, a twenty-six-year-old Gulf War Army veteran.
Yet the FBI never captured the second suspect who rode next to McVeigh in the bomb truck. Soon the Bureau canceled its global manhunt for "John Doe 2," claiming twenty-four eyewitnesses who saw him with McVeigh were mistaken.
None of this rings true to award-winning journalist Margaret Roberts. As former news director of America's Most Wanted, she worked high-profile manhunts alongside the FBI. How could so many witnesses be wrong?
Blowback chronicles Roberts's investigation into a baffling prison murder mystery wrapped inside the Oklahoma City bombing case. In pursuit of answers, she conducts journalism's only face-to-face prison interviews with McVeigh co-conspirator Terry Nichols.
Contrary to the official story of lone-wolf terror, Roberts uncovers evidence of a sprawling neo-Nazi plot behind the bombing in which the FBI played a hidden role. Then, while covering its tracks, the FBI allowed terror suspects to walk free, denied the bombing victims justice, and hid the truth from all of us.
After an FBI whistleblower steps forward, Roberts puts the puzzle together, though one burning mystery remains: The FBI has kept surveillance videotape of McVeigh's accomplice locked away all these years. Is John Doe 2 the FBl's guilty secret?
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Post Hill Press
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
515 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-88845-842-6 (9798888458426)
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Margaret Roberts is a prize-winning investigative journalist and television producer. She graduated from Northwestern University and earned a master's degree with honors in English literature at the University of Chicago.
As managing editor of Chicago Lawyer newspaper in the 1980s, Roberts conducted a death-row investigation that led to the exoneration of an innocent man. The story won Chicago's Jacob Scher and Stick 'O Type awards. Newsweek called it "investigative journalism at its best."
In Washington, DC, Roberts was a top editor at National Journal and Congressional Quarterly before moving into television as news director of America's Most Wanted.
In 2010, Roberts edited the prison memoir Deadly Secrets, Timothy McVeigh's account of the Oklahoma City bomb plot as told to fellow death-row inmate David Hammer, an exclusive source for Blowback.
Roberts owns Rio Sierra River Resort, a hotel and writer's retreat near California's Sequoia National Park, where she wrote her book.
As managing editor of Chicago Lawyer newspaper in the 1980s, Roberts conducted a death-row investigation that led to the exoneration of an innocent man. The story won Chicago's Jacob Scher and Stick 'O Type awards. Newsweek called it "investigative journalism at its best."
In Washington, DC, Roberts was a top editor at National Journal and Congressional Quarterly before moving into television as news director of America's Most Wanted.
In 2010, Roberts edited the prison memoir Deadly Secrets, Timothy McVeigh's account of the Oklahoma City bomb plot as told to fellow death-row inmate David Hammer, an exclusive source for Blowback.
Roberts owns Rio Sierra River Resort, a hotel and writer's retreat near California's Sequoia National Park, where she wrote her book.