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Perfect Soldiers
The Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It
by Terry McDermott


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McDermott, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, profiles the 9/11 hijackers in an account based on over three years of research.

HarperCollins, 352 pages
05/03/2005
$25.95

ISBN: 0060584696

Nonfiction
Biographies & Memoirs
Current Events & Politics

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Washington Post Jonathan Yardley

Clearly written in good, plain English, Perfect Soldiers is a group portrait of ordinary men who were driven to do a surpassingly evil thing.

Kirkus Reviews

A chilling, often depressing read that merits attention.

Library Journal Sarah Jent

Gargantuan... very detailed. [1 Apr 2005, p. 111]

Publishers Weekly

Engrossing and deeply disturbing from the start.

Los Angeles Times Brian Michael Jenkins

Perfect Soldiers certainly will not be the last book on [9/11]. But for now, it is the very best available. [15 May 2005, p. R8]

The Globe And Mail [Toronto] Wesley Wark

[The] strength of McDermott's book is his determination to write the lives of the key 9/11 conspirators, while never forgetting the broader context in which they operated. [18 Jun 2005]

New York Review Of Books Christian Caryl

[A] careful investigation of the September 11 hijackers.

Houston Chronicle Steve Weinberg

Perfect Soldiers... is bound to become one of the most insightful books ever published about Sept. 11.

Salon Laura Miller

An impressive work of reporting.

The New York Times Michiko Kakutani

Perfect Soldiers replaces the caricatures of outsize "evil geniuses" and "wild-eyed fanatics" with portraits of the 9/11 plotters as surpassingly mundane people, people who might easily be our neighbors or airplane seatmates.

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Perfect Soldiers The Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It by Terry McDermott

Perfect Soldiers
The Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It
by Terry McDermott