Ghost Wars

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll spent years reporting from the Middle East to produce this expose of the CIA's involvement in al-Qaeda's evolution. He uncovered new evidence and interviewed senior US officials and foreign spymasters, giving the full inside story of the CIA's covert funding of an Islamic jihad against Soviet forces in Afghanistan, which sowed the seeds of Bin Laden's rise, traced how he built his global network, and revealed how American intelligence repeatedly failed to grasp the rising threat of terrorism.