The Looming Tower: Al-qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by Wright, Lawrence; Sklar, AlanEdition: Unabridged
Pub. Date: 2008-02-15
Publisher(s): Findaway World Llc
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Summary
The Looming Tower achieves an unprecedented level of intimacy and insight by telling the story through the interweaving lives of four men: the two leaders of alQaeda, Osama bin Laden and Ayman alZawahiri; the FBI's counterterrorism chief, John O'Neill; and the former head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Turki alFaisal. Wright reveals the crosscurrents of modern Islam that helped to radicalize Zawahiri and bin Laden . . . the birth of alQaeda and its unsteady development into an organization capable of absolute destruction.
Author Biography
LAWRENCE WRIGHT is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a fellow at the Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law. The author of five works of nonfiction, including City Children, he has also written a novel, God's Favorite, and was co-writer of the movie The Siege.
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