Read this yonks ago, but never got around to reviewing it, actually had to reread bits of it recently to remind myself.My edition is the 2007 volume, so it covers the 7/7 bombings but obviously came out before Osama Bin Laden's assassination, the Arab Spring, it's arguable failure, continued conf...
The device, 1,200 lbs of explosives, several heavy tanks of hydrogen, a detonator of nitroglycerine and two 20-foot fuses, had been hidden in a rented yellow Ryder Econoline van that had been parked in a public car park beneath the Twin Towers twelve minutes earlier. The bomb, on level B-2 of the...
This calm was tempered by profound anxiety but was coloured too by a suspicion that perhaps, despite the extraordinary events unfolding across the planet and the enduring trauma of 9/11, the world had not changed quite as much as many had thought on that day in early autumn 2001 when the planes h...