...Steve Coll follows up his Pulitzer winning bestseller, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001,
with this extensively researched family history of the bin Ladens. It
will be an understatement to describe it as just another rags-to-riches
tale. It is a breathtaking saga of the fluctuating fortunes of a
Yemen-based family that emerged from obscurity to become one of the
richest and the most influential groups of people, not only in south
Asia,… more
