Ghost Wars

Steve Coll's Ghost War (London, Penguin, 2005) is indeed a good book that should be recommended to friends who are interested in the origin and development of Osama bin Laden's network streching from the 1979-1989 Afghan War to the 9/11 attacks in 2001. It is best to read it together with George Friedman's less journalistic and more analytical America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between America and Its Enemies.