The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BESTSELLER, NOW AN ACCLAIMED TV SERIES. 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 fell. - "The Looming Tower is a thriller. And it's a tragedy, too" — The New York Times - "The most detailed (and thrilling) account we have of the events that led to the destruction of the Twin Towers" — Observer, Books of the Year - "Possibly the best book yet written on the rise of al-Qaeda ... beautifully written and wonderfully compelling" — William Dalrymple - "We meet some formidable schemers and killers ... fabulists crazed with blood and death" — Martin Amis