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The Bin Ladens
  • Published: 5 March 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141917788
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 688
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The Bin Ladens

Oil, Money, Terrorism and the Secret Saudi World

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5 Mar 2009
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1 Apr 2008
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'Riveting ... gives us the most psychologically detailed portrait of the brutal 9/11 mastermind yet ... a book that possesses the novelistic energy of a rags-to-riches family epic' New York Times

The Bin Ladens are shrouded in secrecy, living in one of the most closed, unaccountable countries on earth. Little has been known about the world that created Osama - until now.

In this gripping account prizewinning journalist Steve Coll has interviewed those closest to the family who rose from Yemeni peasants to jetsetting millionaires in two generations. In doing so, he reveals a Saudi Arabia torn between religious purity and the temptations of the West, telling a story of oil, money, power, patronage and dangerous cultural extremes.
  • Published: 5 March 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141917788
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 688
Categories:

About the author

Steve Coll

Steve Coll is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Ghost Wars and dean emeritus of the Columbia Journalism School, and from 2007 to 2013 was president of New America, a public policy institute in Washington, DC. He is an editor at The Economist in London, was a staff writer at The New Yorker for nearly two decades, and before that was a writer and editor at The Washington Post, where he received a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism in 1990. He is the author of nine books, including The Bin Ladens, Private Empire, Directorate S, and The Achilles Trap.
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The Achilles Trap
Directorate S
Private Empire
Ghost Wars: The Secret History Of The Cia, Afghanistan And Bin Laden, From The Soviet Invasion To September 10, 2001
Ghost Wars: The Secret History Of The Cia, Afghanistan And Bin Laden, From The Soviet Invasion To September 10, 2001
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