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 Cover of the first US edition | |
| Author | Lawrence Wright |
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| Cover artist | Chip Kidd (designer) |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| 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 |
| 973.931 22 | |
| LC Class | HV6432.7 .W75 2006 |
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 is a 2006 non-fiction 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 Non-Fiction. A ten-episode television miniseries adaptation aired in 2018 on Hulu.