IN THE NAME OF OSAMA BIN LADEN: Global Terrorism and the Bin Laden Brotherhood
Roland Jacquard, Roland Jacquard, Jacquard, , trans. from the French by George Holoch, intro. and afterword by Samia Serage. Duke Univ., $18.95 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-8223-2991-6
This latest entry into the Osama bin Laden publishing sweepstakes stands out for its exhaustive research and prescience—it was published in France the week of September 11 and catapulted onto the bestseller lists there. Jacquard, a French terrorism expert, details Osama bin Laden's rise from his childhood in Saudi Arabia to turning into the world's largest terrorist menace. While the story has been told elsewhere (most popularly in Peter Bergen's
Reviewed on: 02/18/2002
Genre: Nonfiction
Hardcover - 320 pages - 978-0-8223-2977-0