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

Summary

The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak’s unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul.

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.

Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.

In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.

About the Author:

• Lawrence Wright grew up in Dallas, graduated from Tulane University, and spent a year at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. He is a staff writer for The New Yorker and is the author of City Children, Country Summer, In the New World, Saints and Sinners, Remembering Satan, and Twins. He lives in Austin, Texas.

Product Details:

• Trade Paperback: 592 pages
• Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition
• Political Science / Terrorism