{"product_id":"book-bkkf","title":"The Terror Years","description":"With the Pulitzer Prize–winning \u003ci\u003eThe Looming Tower,\u003c\/i\u003e Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. Here, in ten powerful pieces first published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker,\u003c\/i\u003e he recalls the path that terror in the Middle East has taken, from the rise of al-Qaeda in the 1990s to the recent beheadings of reporters and aid workers by ISIS.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Terror Years\u003c\/i\u003e draws on several articles he wrote while researching \u003ci\u003eThe Looming Tow\u003c\/i\u003eer\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e as well as many that he’s written since, following where and how al-Qaeda and its core cultlike beliefs have morphed and spread. They include a portrait of the “man behind bin Laden,” Ayman al-Zawahiri, and the tumultuous Egypt he helped spawn; an indelible impression of Saudi Arabia, a kingdom of silence under the control of the religious police; the Syrian film industry, at the time compliant at the edges but already exuding a feeling of the barely masked fury that erupted into civil war; the 2006–11 Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza, a study in the disparate value of human lives. Other chapters examine al-Qaeda as it forms a master plan for its future, experiences a rebellion from within the organization, and spins off a growing web of worldwide terror. The American response is covered in profiles of two FBI agents and the head of the intelligence community. The book ends with a devastating piece about the capture and slaying by ISIS of four American journalists and aid workers, and our government’s failed response.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eOn the fifteenth anniversary of 9\/11, \u003ci\u003eThe Terror Years\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a unifying recollection of the roots of contemporary Middle Eastern terrorism, a study of how it has grown and metastasized, and, in the scary and moving epilogue, a cautionary tale of where terrorism might take us yet. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith a Prologue read by the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAFP PHOTO\/HO\/ISIL ","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49333695152432,"sku":"BDbkkf","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/253545-bkkf-Square.jpg?v=1733876608","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bkkf","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}