Lawrence Wright

Ganador del premio Pulitzer por La torre elevada, Lawrence Wright es considerado uno de los periodistas más prestigiosos en temas de terrorismo y Oriente Medio. Los reportajes reunidos en Los años del terror buscan dar explicacion a la metamorfosis y la expansion de al-Qaeda desde sus origenes en los años noventa hasta nuestros dias, con el surgimiento del Estado Islamico. Desde el indeleble recuento de su estancia por Arabia Saudi, pasando por la industria cinematografica siria, el conflicto de Gaza, y un devastador articulo sobre la captura y las ejecuciones de los cuatro periodistas y cooperadores internacionales en manos del Estado Islamico y el estrepitoso fracaso de las democracias occidentales, en particular de Estados Unidos para hacer frente al conflicto que asola Oriente Medio, el lector se ve embarcado en una inquietante travesia por el mundo de la violencia yihadista, convirtiendose en observador de perpetradores, cabecillas, lobos solitarios, victimas y enemigos. Reseñas:Wright entreteje sus investigaciones en un sutil tapiz de experiencias personales y sensatas reflexiones.James Traub, The New York Times Book Review Fascinante[...] este libro llamara la atencion de todos los lectores interesados en los origenes y posterior desarrollo de los movimientos terroristas.Library Journal Uno de los periodistas mas lucidos nos ayuda de nuevo a comprender el extremismo islamico y la reaccion occidental.Ahmed Rashid, The New York Times Un prosa clara e incisiva [...] Cada reportaje es una mina de informacioncondensada.USA Today Esto es reportaje de alto nivel. Lawrence Wright hace recuento de sus investigaciones con prosa cristalina sin perder su propio compas moral.Max Boot, The Wall Street Journal

'Wright's brilliantly constructed narrative is head and shoulders above the rest. He knows important parts of the Muslim world (including Saudi Arabia) at first hand, he understands the motors of Islamist militancy… Moreover, he is a fine writer with an eye for the telling detail. Even those who think they know the story intimately will feel they are reading it anew' New Statesman

L’amenaça de la torre, una història fascinant que s’estén al llarg de cinc dècades, explica amb gran riquesa de detalls el creixement del fonamentalisme islàmic, el sorgiment d’Al-Qaida i les errades

Although I read this book some weeks ago, I''ve been saving my review for the fifth anniversary of 9/11. Let me also take this moment to ask all those who read this review to say a prayer for the victims of 9/11.The roots of 9/11 trace back far into history, arguably to the 7th century when Islam was born. The Looming Tower takes up the story in November 1948 when Sayyid Qutb, an important Egyptian figure in the development of Islamic extremism, sailed for the United States where he was appalled by what he saw and experienced. Mr. Wright then nicely makes the connection to the Muslim Brothers movement which aimed at Egyptian nationalism. These twin roots developed a strain of Islam that was anti-modern and which dictated that all others must be violently conquered. The book next picks up the thread of Ayman Al-Zawahiri, the key al-Qaeda leader, and how he became an Islamic radical through being tortured in Egyptian prison.The story then turns to Saudi Arabia where the legendary Mohammed bin Awahd bin Laden, Osama bin Laden''s father, is described. From his long shadow (even after death), Osama emerged slowly through his attraction to the Muslim Brothers movement. Sheikh Abdullah Azzam provided the radical model that further involved Osama into opposition.

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Deux personnages sont au cœur de l’enquête minutieuse que Lawrence Wright a menée pour écrire ce livre fascinant : le très inquiétant mais brillant auteur de science-fiction L. Ron Hubbard, dont l’im

A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2014 PICKA TOP TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR PICK BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLYA gripping account of the 1978 Camp David summit when President Jimmy Carter persuaded Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to sign the first peace treaty in the modern Middle East, one which endures to this day.With his hallmark insight into the forces at play in the Middle East, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lawrence Wright takes us through each of these historic thirteen days, illuminating the issues that have made the problems of the region so intractable and exploring the scriptural narratives that continue to frame the conflict. What emerges is a riveting view of the making of this unexpected and unprecedented peace treaty.

In this fascinating work of historical fiction, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright captures all the gripping drama and black humor of Panama during the final, nerve-racking days of its legendary dictator, Manuel Antonio Noriega.It is Christmas 1989, and Tony Noriegas demons are finally beginning to catch up with him. A former friend of President Bush, Fidel Castro, and Oliver North, this universally reviled strongman is on the run from the U.S. Congress, the Justice Department, the Colombian mob, and a host of political rivals. In his desperation, he seeks salvation from any and all quarters -- God, Satan, a voodoo priest, even the spirits of his murdered enemies. But with a million-dollar price on his head and 20,000 American soldiers on his trail, Noriega is fast running out of options. Drawn from a historical record more dramatic than even the most artful spy novel, Gods Favorite is a riveting and darkly comic fictional account of the events that occurred in Panama from 1985 to the dictators capture in 1989. With an award-winning journalists eye for detail, Lawrence Wright leads the reader toward a dramatic face-off in the Vatican embassy, where Noriega confronts his psychological match in the papal nuncio.

Toute ressemblance avec des faits réels...En Asie, 47 personnes succombent à une fièvre mystérieuse. Envoyé sur place par lOMS, Henry Parsons, épidémiologiste de renom, découvre à quel point le virus

A DEADLY VIRUS. QUARANTINE. A WORLD IN LOCKDOWN. THE THRILLER THAT PREDICTED IT ALL. THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFlies thrillingly, eerily close to realityGuardianThis page-turner... is riveting and spookily anticipates much that has unfolded in realitySunday TimesA race-against-time thriller, as one man must find the origin and cure for a new killer virus that has brought the world to its knees.At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with a mysterious fever. When Dr Henry Parsons - microbiologist and epidemiologist - travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will soon have staggering repercussions across the globe.As international tensions rise and governments enforce unprecedented measures, Henry finds himself in a race against time to track the source and find a cure - before its too late . . .***WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:If you have a desire to really understand what is going on in the world right now, this is a novel that you cannot afford to miss!Well-written and fast-paced. Most of all utterly, scarily, believable.

A virtuoso feat ... a book of panoramic breadthNew York Times Book ReviewA devastating analysis ... Wright is a master of knitting together complex narrativesThe ObserverJust as Lawrence Wrights The Looming Tower became the defining account of our centurys first devastating event, 9/11, so The Plague Year will become the defining account of the second.The story starts with the initial moments of Covids appearance in Wuhan and ends with Joseph Bidens inauguration in an America ravaged by well over 400,000 deaths - a mortality already some ten times worse than US combat deaths in the entire Vietnam War.This is an anguished, furious memorial to a year in which all of Americas great strengths - its scientific knowledge, its great civic and intellectual institutions, its spirit of voluntarism and community - were brought low, not by a terrifying new illness alone, but by political incompetence and cynicism on a scale for which there has been no precedent.With insight, sympathy, clarity and rage, The Plague Year allows the reader to see the unfolding of this great tragedy, talking with individuals on the front line, bringing together many moving and surprising stories and painting a devastating picture of a country literally and fatally misled.Maddening and sobering - as comprehensive an account of the first year of the pandemic as weve yet seenKirkus

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Towera riveting thriller and all-too-convincing chronicle of science, espionage, action and speculation (The Wall Street Journal).At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will have staggering repercussions. Halfway across the globe, the deputy director of U.S. Homeland Security scrambles to mount a response to the rapidly spreading pandemic leapfrogging around the world, which she believes may be the result of an act of biowarfare. And a rogue experimenter in man-made diseases is preparing his own terrifying solution. As already-fraying global relations begin to snap, the virus slashes across the United States, dismantling institutions and decimating the population. With his own wife and children facing diminishing odds of survival, Henry travels from Indonesia to Saudi Arabia to his home base at the CDC in Atlanta, searching for a cure and for the origins of this seemingly unknowable disease. The End of October is a one-of-a-kind thriller steeped in real-life political and scientific implications, filled with the insight that has been the hallmark of Wrights acclaimed nonfiction and the full-tilt narrative suspense that only the best fiction can offer.

From the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Looming Towerand one of the most lucid writers on the subject of Islamic extremism (The New York Review of Books)come ten powerful investigative pieces, an essential primer on jihadist movements in the Middle East and the attempts of the West to contain them.In these pages, Lawrence Wright examines al-Qaeda as it experiences a rebellion from within and spins off a growing web of worldwide terror. He shows us the Syrian film industry before the civil warcompliant at the edges but already exuding a barely masked fury. He gives us the heart-wrenching story of American children kidnapped by ISISand Atlantic publisher David Bradleys efforts to secure their release. And he details the roles of key FBI figures John ONeill and his talented protege Ali Soufan in fighting terrorism. In a moving epilogue, Wright shares his predictions for the future. Rigorous, clear-eyed, and compassionate, The Terror Years illuminates the complex human players on all sides of a devastating conflict. These essays were first published in The New Yorker.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower comes an intimate memoir of one mans coming-of-age, and a universal story of the American experience of two crucial decades. "A wonderfully readable, thoroughly absorbing memoir of a twenty-five-year span of wrenching change." The Philadelphia InquirerWe first meet Larry Wright in 1960. He is thirteen and moving with his family to Dallas, the essential city of the New World just beginning to rise across the southern rim of the United States. As we follow him through the next two decadesthe civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the devastating assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr., the sexual revolution, the crisis of Watergate, and the emergence of Ronald Reaganwe relive the pivotal and shocking events of those crowded years.Lawrence Wright has written the autobiography of a generation, giving back to us with stunning force the feelings of those turbulent times when the euphoria of Kennedys America would come to its shocking end.

AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author, a hilarious, sharply drawn send-up of local politics A novel about a dark-horse candidate who risks his personal happiness for a career in the Texas House of Representatives "Required reading in these politically turbulent times.Susan Orlean, author of On AnimalsA rollicking satire . . ." Paul Begala, The New York Times Book Review Sonny Lamb is an affable, if floundering, rancher with the unfortunate habit of becoming a punchline in his Texas hometown. Most recently, to everyones headshaking amusement, he bought his own bull at an auction. But when a fire breaks out at a neighbors farm, Sonny makes headlines in another way: not waiting for help, he bolts to the farm where his heroic actions make the evening news.Almost immediately, and seemingly out of nowhere, a handsomely dressed lobbyist from Austin arrives at his ranch door and asks if hed like to run for his West Texas districts seat in the state legislature. Though Sonny has zero experience and doesnt consider himself political at all, the fate of his ranchand perhaps his marriage to the lovely cowgirl Lolahangs in the balance. With seemingly no other choice, Sonny decides to throw his hat in the ring .As he navigates life in politicsfrom running a campaign to negotiating in the capitolSonny must learn the ropes, weighing his own ethics and environmental concerns against the pressures of veteran politicians, savvy lobbyists, and his own party. In tracing Sonnys attempt to balance his marriage and morality with an increasingly volatile professional life, Lawrence Wright has crafted an irresistibly funny and clever roller-coaster ride about one mans pursuit of goodness in the Lonestar State.

In this sweeping, timely thriller, a Palestinian American FBI agent teams up with a hardline Israeli cop to solve the murder of the Israeli police chief in Gazafrom the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Looming Tower and The End of October."A layered tale of intrigue and betrayal."Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March and HorseTony Malik, a half-Irish, half-Arab FBI agent based in New York, specializes in tracking money from drug and arms deals. His life takes a dramatic turn when a long-term relationship ends and his job hangs in the balance. Amid personal turmoil, Malik becomes intrigued by his Palestinian fathers past. He decides to visit his ancestral homeland for his nieces wedding, accepting a seemingly simple FBI assignment along the way.Upon arrival in the West Bank, Maliks world is upended when the Israeli police chief is murdered. Initially a suspect, Maliks investigative prowess soon earns him a place in the Israeli investigation. At the heart of the story is Maliks complex relationship with Yossi, the hardline anti-Arab Israeli police officer leading the case. They must learn to trust each other because, as they move closer to solving the case, they realize there is no one else they can trust on either side.Lawrence Wright populates the novel with richly drawn characters: Yossis daughter studying in Paris, Maliks niece whose wedding is shattered by violence, her peacenik fiance with ties to Hamas, and a cast of religious leaders, corrupt cops, and militants on both sides. Through these intersecting lives, Wright weaves an intricate tapestry that culminates in the devastating Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.More than a thriller, Wrights novel explores the complex history between Israel and Palestine, revealing the tragic human scale of this long-standing conflict and offering a nuanced perspective on a tragedy that continues to shape the region and the world.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower comes a fascinating book about religion in America, about the passions, triumphs, and failures of the life of faith, revealing stories of grace and despair, sexual scandal and attempted murder. "Insightful...vivid...beautifully rendered stories." Chicago TribuneLawrence Wrights Saints and Sinners are Jimmy Swaggart, who preached a hellfire gospel with rock n roll abandon before he was caught with a, prostitute in a seedy motel; Anton LaVey, the kitsch-loving, gleefully fraudulent founder of the First Church of Satan; Madalyn Murray OHair, whose litigious atheism sometimes resembled a brand of faith; Matthew Fox, the Dominican priest who has aroused the fury of the Vatican for dismissing the doctrine of original sin and denouncing the church as a dysfunctional family; Walker Railey, the rising star of Dallass Methodist church, who, at the pinnacle of his success, was suspected of attempting to murder his wife; and Will Campbell, the eccentric liberal Southern Baptist preacher whose challenges to established ways of thinking have made him a legend in his own time.