'' The Looming Tower : Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 '' is a 2006 non-fiction book by Lawrence Wright . It is a historical look at the way in which the militant organization Al-Qaeda came into being , the background for various terrorist attacks and how they were investigated , and the events that led to the September 11 attacks . In 2007 , Wright was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for the work . A 10-episode television miniseries adaptation aired in 2018 on Hulu
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The Looming Tower