PositiveThe Washington Post\"Wright deftly evokes the jihadist milieu, but he is on less solid ground later in the book when he attempts to recast his narrative into a sort of police procedural: a race against time by the forces of good—embodied by John O\'Neill, the mercurial head of the FBI\'s New York counterterrorism office—to thwart the evil machinations that culminated in the 9/11 attacks ... captivating as O\'Neill\'s story is, it comes across as a somewhat distracting addendum to what at heart is a rich, finely detailed account of how bin Laden and Zawahiri, two men of vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, together launched an epic struggle more than a decade ago that continues to dominate international politics today.\
