Table of Contents

• Author’s Note
• Prologue: Patriots’ Day
• PART 1—THE HUNTERS: THE FIVE-DAY SEARCH FOR THE BOSTON MARATHON BOMBERS
• These Motherfuckers Are Here
• Get on It
• Good Job, Boy. Good Job
• BOLO
• Faces But No Names
• Slip Away II
• PART 2—TIMELINE OF TERROR: WHO ARE THE MARATHON BOMBERS?
• Growing up Tsarnaev
• Looks Like an Al Qaeda Training Video in Here
• Muaz in the Motherland
• Into the Forests
• The Informants
• Rats
• PART 3—HEAVEN DOWN THE BARREL OF A GUN: COUNTDOWN TO DETONATION
• Maybe, Maybe Not
• Vaseline, Fireworks, Backpack
• Better to Be a Dog Than the Youngest Son
• Dead Men Tell No Tales
• Allah Sent Him Money
• Have to Answer to God For
• PART 4—JUSTICE SEEKERS
• One-Finger Salute
• Food for the Dog
• Kill to Be an American
• Maximum Harm
• It Was Him
• The Lion King
• Ain’t No Love
• America’s Worst Nightmare
• Oh, My God, He’s So Young
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgments
• Notes

About the Author

Michele R. McPhee has been nominated for three Emmy awards for investigative journalism and works as a Boston-based producer for the Brian Ross Investigative Unit at ABC News. She is the host of a daily radio talk show on Boston’s WMEX. McPhee earned many journalism awards as the police bureau chief at the New York Daily News and wrote an award-winning column at the Boston Herald. She has written for New York, Newsweek, People, Boston, and other national and international magazines. She is the author of five true crime titles: A Date with Death, which became a Lifetime movie; A Professor’s Rage; When Evil Rules; Heartless and A Mob Story, currently in development as a feature film. She lives in Boston.

Reviews

"No single reporter has covered the Boston bombing as thoroughly as Michele McPhee. She knows Boston--its streets, its cops, and its corridors of power. Maximum Harm is riveting--a tribute to the first responders, and, startlingly, a troubling exposé of the FBI's botched handling of the Tsarnaev brothers. You may think you know this story, but until you read this book, you don't."--T. J. English, New York Times-bestselling author of Where the Bodies Were Buried and The Westies "New York Journal of Books"

"Graphic. . . Heart-wrenching. . . Passionate"-- "New York Journal of Books"

"In Maximum Harm, Michele McPhee uncovers shocking new truths about the Boston Marathon bombers and those in government, law enforcement, and their own community who gave them free rein to plot and execute one of the most vicious terror attacks ever carried out on American soil. This book will grab you, shake you, and will not let you go!"--Casey Sherman, New York Times-bestselling author of The Finest Hours and Boston Strong "New York Journal of Books"

"Investigative journalist McPhee's latest true crime narrative takes the story of the Boston Marathon bombing to new levels with her gripping account of the explosion, the frantic search for the culprits, and the eventual trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Even readers familiar with the contours of the tragedy are likely to find McPhee's narrative terrifying and moving."-- "Publishers Weekly"