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Fires in the Night : The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI and the Hidden Battle to Save the Planet - Matthew Wolfe

Fires in the Night

The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI and the Hidden Battle to Save the Planet

By: Matthew Wolfe

Hardcover | 16 July 2026

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âCinematic, suspenseful, totally immersiveâ ZO SCHLANGER

âExplosive ⦠fascinatingâ RENI EDDO-LODGE

âRivetingâ ERIC KLINENBERG

The explosive true story of a secret group of radicals who launched a clandestine battle to save the planet, and what their legacy illuminates about the future of our climate crisis.


In the early hours of October 28, 1996, a driver in rural Oregon spotted flames rising from a federal ranger station. Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze, but not before discovering a cryptic phrase spray-painted nearby: âEARTH LIBERATION FRONT.â Over the next decade, the Earth Liberation Front would carry out the most audacious politically motivated arsons in US history. Targeting car dealerships, lumber companies and a $20 million ski resort, they wanted to send a message: if the government wouldnât halt the destruction of the natural world, they would. Despite causing no deaths, the ELF was branded the nationâs foremost domestic terrorism threat and became the target of one of the FBIâs largest ever investigations.

Fires in the Night is the definitive story of the ELFâs rise and unravelling. For years, members of ELF, many of them close friends, led double lives, meticulously planning and staging their attacks while trying to manage personal frictions and stay one step ahead of the government. Drawing on years of original reporting and interviews, including with reclusive activists breaking their silence for the first time, journalist Matthew Wolfe offers a thrilling, intimate account of a moment when the actions of radical environmentalists challenged mainstream complacency.

As the climate crisis continues to accelerate, Wolfe asks the most pressing question of our time: facing the end of the world as we know it, exactly what kind of resistance is justified?

âAt once a cinematically propulsive narrative, a herculean feat of reporting and a sweeping work of modern environmental historyâ ROBERT MOOR, author of On Trails

âA brilliant meditation on how a social movement draws its own moral linesâ ERIC KLINENBERG, author of Palaces for the People

âMasterful reporting. As riveting as any thrillerâ SETH HARP, author of The Fort Bragg Cartel

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