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　　A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a

groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans

and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the

assault on America. Lawrence Wright’s remarkable book is based on

five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted

in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England,

France, Germany, Spain, and the United States.

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 al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and Ayman

al-Zawahiri; the FBI’s counterterrorism chief, John O’Neill; and

the former head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Turki

al-Faisal.

As these lives unfold, we see revealed: the crosscurrents of

modern Islam that helped to radicalize Zawahiri and bin Laden . . .

the birth of al-Qaeda and its unsteady development into an

organization capable of the American embassy bombings in Kenya and

Tanzania and the attack on the USS Cole . . . O’Neill’s heroic

efforts to track al-Qaeda before 9/11, and his tragic death in the

World Trade towers . . . Prince Turki’s transformation from bin

Laden’s ally to his enemy . . . the failures of the FBI, CIA, and

NSA to share intelligence that might have prevented the 9/11

attacks.

The Looming Tower broadens and deepens our knowledge of these

signal events by taking us behind the scenes. Here is Sayyid Qutb,

founder of the modern Islamist movement, lonely and despairing as

he meets Western culture up close in 1940s America; the privileged

childhoods of bin Laden and Zawahiri; family life in the al-Qaeda

compounds of Sudan and Afghanistan; O’Neill’s high-wire act in

balancing his all-consuming career with his equally entangling

personal life—he was living with three women, each of them unaware

of the others’ existence—and the nitty-gritty of turf battles among

U.S. intelligence agencies.

Brilliantly conceived and written, The Looming Tower draws all

elements of the story into a galvanizing narrative that adds

immeasurably to our understanding of how we arrived at September

11, 2001. The richness of its new information, and the depth of its

perceptions, can help us deal more wisely and effectively with the

continuing terrorist threat.

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　　Lawrence Wright graduated from Tulane

University and spent two years teaching at the American University

in Cairo, Egypt. He 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—City

Children, Country Summer; In the New World; Saints and Sinners;

Remembering Satan; and Twins—he has also written a

novel, God’s Favorite, and was cowriter of the movie The

Siege. He and his wife are longtime residents of Austin,

Texas.

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