- Published: 2 March 2009
- ISBN: 9780099488699
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 224
- RRP: $24.99
The Second Plane
September 11, 2001-2007















- Published: 2 March 2009
- ISBN: 9780099488699
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 224
- RRP: $24.99
What Amis has really done, as the chronologically ordered pieces in this collection demonstrate was to go on a political journey....possibly the most fully engaged writer of our age
David Aaronovitch, The Times
Certainly witty, clever and polished
William Dalrymple, Sunday Times
Trenchant, deeply informed and informative
Independent on Sunday
It is to Martin Amis's great credit that he has, from the start, risked the condemnation of the fashionable left by speaking out against what he calls the 'racist, misogynist, homophobic, totalitarian, inquisitional, imperialist and genocidal world' of the Islamic terrorist.
Mail on Sunday
As well as being a series of dispatches from the international and political front line, it is also a book about what it means to be a writer, here in the foothills of the twenty-first century, with all the compromises, collusions and professional embarrassments this entails
D.J. Taylor, Literary Review
A handy bedside companion ... Amis is an Englishman who understands America, a sympathetic critic if you like. Today, he belongs to a distinguished minority and deserves to be read as such
Financial Times
A gleaming marriage of full-throttle stylistics and penetrating thought, The Second Plane is a smart and indecently entertaining analysis of the world we woke up to on September 12, 2001.
Sunday Herald