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A man wakes to find himself lying on the ground in a railway station. He does not remember how he got there. He has forgotten where he lives. He cannot even remember his own name.

Egypt - where a top-secret project to build a nuclear plant that will give the Arabs the bomb nears completion....

Israel - where the Mossad's top agent, Nat Dickstein is given an impossible mission....

Russia - where top KGB officials tip the atomic balance in Egypt's favor....

England - where Dickstein makes what could be the fatal mistake of his career by falling under the seductive spell of Suzie Ashford...

The High Seas - where the Mossad, KGB, Egyptians, and Fedayeen terrorists play out the final violent, bloody moves in a devastating game where the price of failure is nuclear holocaust.

This is a sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans, and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright's remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States.