The Looming Tower

　　The international bestseller chosen as Book of the Year by The Times, Evening Standard, Economist, Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Sunday Telegraph, Herald, Observer, Guardian and New Statesman.
　　"The most detailed [and thrilling] account we have of the events that led to the destruction of the twin towers." --- Observer, Book of the Year
　　"Possibly the best book yet written on the ris... (展开全部) 　　The international bestseller chosen as Book of the Year by The Times, Evening Standard, Economist, Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Sunday Telegraph, Herald, Observer, Guardian and New Statesman.
　　"The most detailed [and thrilling] account we have of the events that led to the destruction of the twin towers." --- Observer, Book 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
　　"The looming tower is a thriller. And it's a tragedy, too" --- The New York Times　　

　　Lawrence Wright (born August 2, 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, screenwriter, staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, and fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law. He is a graduate of Tulane University, and for two years taught at the American University in Cairo in Egypt.