The Looming Tower

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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Cover of the first US edition
Author	Lawrence Wright
Cover artist	Chip Kidd (designer)
Language	English
Genre	Nonfiction
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf (US)
Publication date	2006
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	480
ISBN	978-0-375-41486-2
OCLC	64592193
Dewey Decimal	973.931 22
LC Class	HV6432.7 .W75 2006

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 is a 2006 nonfiction book by Lawrence Wright, a journalist for The New Yorker. Wright examines the origins of the militant organization Al-Qaeda, the background for various terrorist attacks and how they were investigated, and the events that led to the September 11 attacks.

The book was a New York Times best-seller and won a number of awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. A ten-episode television miniseries adaptation aired in 2018 on Hulu.