15:17 to Paris

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"On August 21, 2015, Ayoub al-Khazzani boarded the 15:17 train in Brussels, bound for Paris ... He had an AK-47, a pistol, a box cutter, and enough ammunition to obliterate every passenger on the crowded train ... Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, and Spencer Stone were childhood friends, taking a vacation together ... Their decision--to charge the gunman, then overpower him even as he turned first his gun, then his knife, on Stone--would never have happened if they hadn't had a lifetime of trust, support, and loyalty between them. This book is the ... true story of a terrorist attack that would have killed more than 500 people if not for their actions, but it is also the story of three American boys and their friendship"--