The Looming Tower : Al Qaeda's road to 9/11

Author(s): Lawrence Wright

Military/War | Middle Eastern | American | General | Crime/Espionage | Politics

Brilliantly written, compelling and highly original, The Looming Toweris the first book to tell the full story of Al Qaeda from its roots up to 9/11. Drawing on astonishing interviews and first-hand sources, it investigates the extraordinary group of idealogues behind this organization - and those who tried to stop them. There is the tormented, resentful Egyptian Sayyid Qutb, who was horrified by the godlessness and decadence he perceived in America in 1948, and whose subsequent writings turned him into a martyr for Islamic extremists. There is Ayman al-Zawahiri- a devout student who, by the age of fifteen, had already helped to form an underground jihadist cell. There is the deeply contradictory Osama bin Laden- Saudi multimillionaire turned muhajideen commander, whose interests merged with al-Zawahiri's to form a global terror coalition. And there is the FBI's counterterrorism chief, the flamboyant, cigar-smoking John O'Neill, who found his warnings that 'something big' was coming continually ignored, and would finally meet his fate in the shadow of the Twin Towers.

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Winner of Pulitzer Prize General Non-Fiction Category 2007.

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. He is the author of Twins and Remembering Satan, and the co-writer of the movie The Siege.

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  • : 9780141029351
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : 0.44
  • : July 2011
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 28mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Lawrence Wright
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 363.325088297
  • : near fine
  • : 550
  • : 8 B&W Inset