The Bomb focuses on the infamous Haymarket affair, in which a bomb kills police gathered to club and maul labor protestors, and an incredibly unjust trial that later murders five anarchist leaders who had nothing to do with the bomb. The Bomb comes from the point of view of the uncaught bomb-thrower, and proves that the kind of terrorism inflicted by the Unabomber and in Oklahoma City emerged as part of political disobedience more than one hundred years ago.

Feral House releases The Bomb with an afterword by contemporary anarchist thinker John Zerzan. This edition also includes line portraits of novel participants drawn at the turn of the century.