If you want an exhaustively researched book about Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing, as well as it's history, context and legacy, this is the one
Come for the deep archival research, stay to be convinced that the entirety of the American security state, should be investigated from top to bottom, dragged out into the daylight, and most of its personnel executed. I mean, I already thought that, but now even moreso.
I am now completely convinced that either Timothy McVeigh was a federal informant or at the very least some of his unindicted coconspirators were
Nothing makes me feel more like a conspiracy crank than learning how close feds are to what feels like every single notorious incident in the last hundred years. It's just baffling how well it makes me want to doubt it despite the evidence that says it's all right there. I know sometimes they're orchestrating things and sometimes they just aren't paying attention to someone on their radar because they're too busy stalking and harassing civil rights leaders, but damn it if it isn't always a game of "Six (More Like Three or Fewer) Degrees of A Federal Agency".
I feel like a character in a Hideo Kojima game.
This is truly the book for you friendo