Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb

In this provocative history, Mike Davis traces the car bombs worldwide use and development, in the process exposing the role of state intelligence agenciesparticularly those of the United States, Israel, India, and Pakistanin globalizing urban terrorist techniques. Davis argues that it is the incessant impact of car bombs, rather than the more apocalyptic threats of nuclear or bio-terrorism, that is changing cities and urban lifestyles, as privileged centers of power increasingly surround themselves with rings of steel against a weapon that nevertheless seems impossible to defeat.