Title: The Cult at the End of the World: The Terrifying Story of the Aum Doomsday Cult, from the Subways of Tokyo to the Nuclear Arsenals of Russia
Publisher: Crown
Publication Date: 1996
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0517705435
ISBN 13: 9780517705438
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Weight: 1.25 pounds

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The brave new age of postmillennium terror is awakening and its harbinger is Aum Supreme Truth: a Japan-based global web of wired, technically expert New Age zealots armed with biologial weapons, driven by an apocalyptic vision of unprecedented destruction. With compelling immediacy, this book tells the terrifying story the cult reponsible for the Tokyo subway nerve gas attack, offering a revealing profile of its founder and leader, Shoko Asahara.

About the Author

David E. Kaplan is an investigator reporter and editor who specializes in Asia and the Pacific. He is co-author of the award-winning Yakuza (1986), regarded as the standard work on Japanese organized crime, and author of Fires of the Dragon (1992), on the murder of Chinese-American journalist Henry Liu. In 1996 he finished a two-year stint in Tokyo and is now based in Washington, D.C.

Andrew Marshall is chief Asian contributor to British Esquire. His Aum feature for the magazine drew international attention for predicting the March 1995 nerve gas attack on Tokyo. Marshall's stories have appeared in newspapers and magazines worldwide. After five years in Tokyo, he is now based out of Bangkok, Thailand.

To reach the authors: email kaplanand@compuserve.com

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