The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Lawrence Wright
May 2017 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Lawrence Wright
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A “heart-stopping account of the events leading up to 9/11” (The New York Times Book Review), this definitive history explains in gripping detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence failures that culminated in the attacks on the World Trade Center.
One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
In gripping narrative that spans five decades, Lawrence Wright re-creates firsthand the transformation of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri from incompetent and idealistic soldiers in Afghanistan to leaders of the most successful terrorist group in history. He follows FBI counterterrorism chief John O’Neill as he uncovers the emerging danger from al-Qaeda in the 1990s and struggles to track this new threat.
Packed with new information and a deep historical perspective, The Looming Tower is a sweeping, unprecedented history of the long road to September 11.
One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
In gripping narrative that spans five decades, Lawrence Wright re-creates firsthand the transformation of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri from incompetent and idealistic soldiers in Afghanistan to leaders of the most successful terrorist group in history. He follows FBI counterterrorism chief John O’Neill as he uncovers the emerging danger from al-Qaeda in the 1990s and struggles to track this new threat.
Packed with new information and a deep historical perspective, The Looming Tower is a sweeping, unprecedented history of the long road to September 11.
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Paddy Kerley
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August 22, 2021
Such a tragic book, from how UBL treated his family so well yet in such squalor, to Dan O'Neill put Al Qaeda on the map and how his career came to stop, to the death of Massoud and how it was the final calling card that something was coming. But most of all, how all the evidence was there but it wasn't shared with the FBI and how Agent Baumgauter with the I-49 Group accidentally got some of this evidence and was told to stop investigating the presence of hijackers in the US and that this could have all been stopped
Harshit Didwania
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June 30, 2018
First experience with audiobook, and the experience was pleasant. Can
totally get used to this. The book itself was phenomenal. There were so
many layers to the personality of people involved, and the writer brings up
those quite well, in the narration. The narration was also pretty good.
Anil Das
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November 1, 2021
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About the author
Lawrence Wright is a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of nine books of nonfiction, including In the New World, Remembering Satan, The Looming Tower, Going Clear, and Thirteen Days in September, and one novel, God’s Favorite. His books have received many prizes and honors, including a Pulitzer Prize for The Looming Tower. He is also a playwright and screenwriter. He and his wife are longtime residents of Austin, Texas.
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