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  • Published: 3 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9780552156189
  • Imprint: Corgi
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 864
  • RRP: $39.99

The Eleventh Day




'The best available account of 9/11 - soberly written, judiciously weighted, meticulously sourced' Robert Harris

Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan have written the definitive account of 9/11. The shockwaves of the September 11, 2001 attacks in America reverberate to this day. Though Osama Bin Laden has been killed, questions remain. What exactly happened? Could 9/11 have been prevented? How and why did so much acrimony and misinformation arise from the ashes of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a quiet field in Pennsylvania? And what has yet to be revealed?

The Eleventh Day, written with access to thousands of recently released official documents, is updated for this edition - and reports on a development which the former chairman of Congress' 9/11 probe describes as the 'most important in years'.

  • Published: 3 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9780552156189
  • Imprint: Corgi
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 864
  • RRP: $39.99

About the authors

Anthony Summers

Educated at Oxford University, Anthony Summers became a senior BBC investigative journalist and for a decade made documentaries on world events. His books The File on the Tsar (with Tom Mangold), The Kennedy Conspiracy, and Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe were all No. 1 bestsellers. Honeytrap, his book on the Profumo affair, co-authored with Stephen Dorril, was the basis for the film Scandal. Anthony Summers is married, has two sons, and lives in Ireland.

Robbyn Swan

Anthony Summers is a writer, television producer and journalist. He worked for Granada TV's award-winning World in Action programme as well a journalist for the BBC. His bestselling books include Goddess (on the life of Marilyn Monroe), The Kennedy Conspiracy (winner of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger), The Arrogance of Power (on J. Edgar Hoover), Honeytrap (on the Profumo scandal), The Files on the Tsar and Sinatra.

Praise for The Eleventh Day

Fascinating... as well as putting a human face to all the people involved – victims and adversaries – it fills in the omissions (many of them deliberate) in the official version of events

Paul Theroux

Superb... A wholly absorbing and powerful narrative full of good sense, properly weighed facts and clear understanding

Peter Hitchens, Daily Mail