Author Description

In the first and most authoritative book on the bombing and its aftermath, Jim Dwyer, David Kocieniewski, Deidre Murphy, and Peg Tyre begin with the 1990 assassination of Rabbi Meir Kahane to show the roots of the conspiracy allegedly headed by Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman - roots the FBI never managed to uncover. The authors take us into the World Trade Center amid the debris that trapped, maimed, and killed so many people. They reveal the buggings and counterbuggings, the informants and counterinformants who flummoxed the FBI, and the four bomber's tragicomic shenanigans at their trial, as they betrayed one another in desperate attempts to avoid life sentences in prison. And they show why Sheik Omar himself may well escape conviction on sedition charges related to the conspiracy. A riveting real-life suspense story that reads like a thriller, this is the complete true story of the first terrorist attack on American soil--the World Trade Center bombing. "A lucid account of the story behind the bombing... solid reporting."--New York Times Book Review. Featuring a special update on the bombing trial.