Americans who thwarted terrorist attack on Paris-bound train have book deal

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CORRECTS TO PARIS-BOUND TRAIN – President Barack Obama meets with, from left, Oregon National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler, and Air Force Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015, to honor them for heroically subduing a gunman on a Paris-bound passenger train last month. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

NEW YORK — The three Americans who prevented a terrorist attack on a train from Brussels to Paris last summer have a book deal.

The Perseus Books Group announced Wednesday it will publish “The 15:17 to Paris” by Anthony Sadler, National Guardsman member Alek Skarlatos and Staff Sgt. Spencer Stone. The book is scheduled for August and will be co-authored by Jeffrey E. Stern.

Last August, the three Americans were vacationing together in Europe when they thwarted Ayoub El-Khazzani, a man who authorities said has ties to radical Islam and boarded the train with a Kalashnikov rifle, pistol and box cutter. Stone later survived a stabbing attack in his hometown of Sacramento, California, and was a guest last week of first lady Michelle Obama at the State of the Union address.

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