Bakunin’s Reviews > The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 > Status Update

This book was recommended by Sam Harris on his podcast Waking up. He interviewed its author, Lawrence Wright, and so far the book has been very much like a political thriller. I am glad I started reading it. It traces the origins of Al-qaeda to Egypt and the the birth of a more militant islamism in the prisons of Egypt.