The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda's Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright

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

Lawrence Wright

576 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced

Description

This is the definitive account of the run-up to 9/11: from the man who lit the spark of radical Islam in 1948, to those who built up a terror network, and to the FBI agent whose warnings of 'something big' coming were ignored until the Twin Towers...

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