# The Looming Tower

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- Book: [The Looming Tower](https://www.bookquiver.com/lawrence-wright/the-looming-tower) ([The Looming Tower.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/lawrence-wright/the-looming-tower.md))
- Authors: [Lawrence Wright](https://www.bookquiver.com/lawrence-wright)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4102-935-1
- Pages: 576
- Published: 2007-09-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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