Osama bin Laden /
Michael Scheuer.
- Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- xi, 278 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-262) and index.
Osama bin Laden as subject -- Education, 1957-1979 -- Apprenticeship, 1979-1989 -- Nomad, 1989-1996 -- Organizer, 1996-2001 -- Survivor and planner, 2001-2010 -- The bin Laden era.
Available biographies depict Osama bin Laden as a historical figure, the mastermind behind 9/11, but no longer relevant to the world it created. In this book, Scheuer, the first head of the CIA's bin Laden Unit, provides a closely reasoned portrait of bin Laden.