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In October 2002, a nation still recovering from the 9/11 attacks found itself under siege once more -- by an unseen, unknown, and seemingly unstoppable enemy. For 23 days, the area around Washington, D.C., was the hunting ground for a pair of serial snipers who struck at random, killing from afar, only to vanish time and time again. With each attack, they raised the stakes, taunting the authorities to try to stop them -- until their luck ran out. Here, from veteran reporter Angie Cannon and the staff of U.S. News & World Report, comes the complete story of one of the most heinous crimes in American history -- a chronicle of the harrowing days in October that took ten innocent lives and wounded three others; the means and methods used by law enforcement -- and their mistakes; the suspects' backgrounds and possible motives; and the fear that gripped a region of five million people and the effect these shocking acts of terror continue to have on American society.

Angie Cannon is a senior writer at U.S. News & World Report, where she writes about political, legal, and social issues. Before joining the magazine in 1998, she covered the Clinton White House and Justice Department for the Knight-Ridder Washington Bureau from 1993 to 1998. She previously was a staff writer for the Miami Herald, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Detroit News. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her son.