New Book: The Looming Tower
Sunday, October 1st, 2006The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and The Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
Listening to NPR last week I heard the author of this book speak about the Middle East. He struck me as quite intelligent and made several good points, though the details of the entire thing have slipped my mind. All I had was the author’s name that I managed to speak into my cellphone’s voice recorder as I drove to work. Luckily, that was enough to track the book down during a trip to Barnes and Noble.
The book is an account of the Islamist movement that lead up to groups like al-Qaeda and the response of U.S. and international intelligence to the growing movement.
