The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden

“Meticulously documented, fluidly written and replete with riveting detail… Equally revealing about the Americans and their pursuit of him.” — The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) “Of the raft of books that are marking the 20th anniversary of 9⁄11 and its aftermath, few are likely to be as meticulously documented, as fluidly written or as replete with riveting detail as Peter Bergen’s The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden… A page-turner.” — The New York Times Book Review “The portrait [Bergen] draws is intimate and detailed.”— The Washington Post “The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden does much more than reveal a human side to a mass murderer, offering the general reader an authoritative and convincing portrait of a man whose misdeeds changed all our lives in many ways, none for the better.” — The Guardian “Comprehensive, authoritative, and compelling.” — H.R. McMaster, author of Dereliction of Duty and Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World

Peter Bergen is the author or editor of nine books, including three New York Times bestsellers and four Washington Post best nonfiction books of the year. A Vice President at New America, Bergen is a professor at Arizona State University and a national security analyst for CNN. He has testified before congressional committees eighteen times about national security issues and has held teaching positions at Harvard and Johns Hopkins University.