劳伦斯•赖特(Lawrence Wright),毕业于杜兰大学,曾在埃及开罗的美国大学执教两年。他是《纽约客》杂志的正式撰稿人,也是纽约大学法学院法律与安全中心的会员。著有5部非虚构作品——《城市孩子,乡村夏天》、《在新世界》、《圣人与罪人》、《回忆撒旦》,《双胞胎》;还写有小说《上帝的宠儿》,并与人合著了电影《全面围攻》的剧本。他与妻子长年居住在得克萨斯州奥斯汀。2007年,他因《末日巨塔》一书获普利策奖。
A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright’s remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States.
The Looming Tower achieves an unprecedented level of intimacy and insight by telling the story through the interweaving lives of four men: the two leaders of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri; the FBI’s counterterrorism chief, John O’Neill; and the former head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Turki al-Faisal.
As these lives unfold, we see revealed: the crosscurrents of modern Islam that helped to radicalize Zawahiri and bin Laden . . . the birth of al-Qaeda and its unsteady development into an organization capable of the American embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania and the attack on the USS Cole . . . O’Neill’s heroic efforts to track al-Qaeda before 9/11, and his tragic death in the World Trade towers . . . Prince Turki’s transformation from bin Laden’s ally to his enemy . . . the failures of the FBI, CIA, and NSA to share intelligence that might have prevented the 9/11 attacks.
The Looming Tower broadens and deepens our knowledge of these signal events by taking us behind the scenes. Here is Sayyid Qutb, founder of the modern Islamist movement, lonely and despairing as he meets Western culture up close in 1940s America; the privileged childhoods of bin Laden and Zawahiri; family life in the al-Qaeda compounds of Sudan and Afghanistan; O’Neill’s high-wire act in balancing his all-consuming career with his equally entangling personal life—he was living with three women, each of them unaware of the others’ existence—and the nitty-gritty of turf battles among U.S. intelligence agencies.
Brilliantly conceived and written, The Looming Tower draws all elements of the story into a galvanizing narrative that adds immeasurably to our understanding of how we arrived at September 11, 2001. The richness of its new information, and the depth of its perceptions, can help us deal more wisely and effectively with the continuing terrorist threat.</p>
9/11这个日期,无须加上任何年份的前缀,我都会迅速涌现那些画面。我试着梳理这些画面涌现的次序:首先是世贸中心的倒塌,人从摩天楼纵身而下,然后,我才能够想起飞机撞入大楼的画面,最后,可以定格在一个通缉令上,上面的头像是本·拉登。这是我个人的次序,其含义恐怕在于...
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