The looming tower al qaeda and the road to 9 11 audible audio edition lawrence wright lawrence wright random house audio amazonca. With the pulitzer prize winning the looming tower lawrence wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the middle eastthis collection draws on several articles he wrote while researching that book as well as many that hes written since following where and how al qaeda and its core cultlike beliefs have morphed and spread. Oneills heroic efforts to track al qaeda before 9 11 and his tragic death in the world trade towers prince turkis transformation from bin ladens 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 al qaeda and the road to 9 11 wright lawrence 9781400030842 books amazonca. The looming tower al qaeda and the road to 9 11 lawrence wright 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