The Looming Tower

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.