Terror Threat: International and Homegrown Terrorists and Their Threat to Canada - Kindle edition by Hamilton, Dwight, Rimsa, Kostas. Politics & Social Sciences Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

I feel like a spy. Somebody from the publishing house slipped me a copy of Terror Threat before it was officially available.Terror Threat is the second book by Dwight Hamilton with co-author Kostas Rimsa (published by Dundurn publishing; $35; 246 pages) that addresses something that sounds sort of un-Canadian--our national security. The first book Hamilton published was Inside Canadian Intelligence. It sold pretty well and was sort of prescient. As the Toronto Sun reviewer mentioned, "one day after Dwight Hamilton released his book Torontonians found out there may have been a homegrown terror ring in their midst." My cottage is just down the road from where those alleged terrorists were training. That made us cottagers all feel just grand, I'll tell you. And then along comes Terror Threat, another little gem that makes that thorn in the side our Canadian complacency even pricklier. It's another very accessible and dare I say fun read, but it's pretty unsettling. Educational too. Like every other kid growing up in the `60s, when I first heard about guerilla warfare, the image that sprang to mind was apes in the streets. In addition to shining a light on the little corners of terrorist activity that dot our country, he provides a illuminating history lesson about terrorists' pasts. (you'll have to read it for yourself to find out where guerillas come from.) You'll also be amazed by his litany of the numbers of innocent Canadians who's perished or disappeared at the hands of terrorists. I'm no international conflict expert, but it seems to me that unless a lot of people read this book and take action based upon that reading, we might be in for a lot more disappearances. And yeah, it's scary.