500 Days, Kurt Eichenwald
500 Days, Kurt Eichenwald
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500 Days
Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars

Author: Kurt Eichenwald

Narrator: Holter Graham

Unabridged: 22 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/11/2012


Synopsis

Kurt Eichenwald—New York Times bestselling author of Conspiracy of Fools and The Informant—recounts the first 500 days after 9/11 in a comprehensive, fly on the wall, compelling page-turner as gripping as any thriller.

In 500 Days, master chronicler Kurt Eichenwald lays bare the harrowing decisions, deceptions, and delusions of the eighteen months that changed the world forever, as leaders raced to protect their citizens in the wake of 9/11.
     Eichenwald’s gripping, immediate style and true-to-life dialogue puts readers at the heart of these historic events, from the Oval Office to Number 10 Downing Street, from Guantanamo Bay to the depths of CIA headquarters, from the al Qaeda training camps to the torture chambers of Egypt and Syria. He reveals previously undisclosed information from the terror wars, including never-before-reported details about warrantless wiretapping, the anthrax attacks, and investigations and conflicts among Washington, D.C., and London.
     With his signature fast-paced narrative style, Eichenwald—whose book, The Informant, was called “one of the best nonfiction books of the decade” by The New York Times Book Review—exposes a world of secrets and lies that has remained hidden until now.

About Kurt Eichenwald

Kurt Eichenwald wrote for The New York Times for more than twenty years. A two-time winner of the George Polk Award for excellence in journalism, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 and 2002. He is the author of three bestselling books, one of which, The Informant, was made into a major motion picture. He lives in Dallas with his wife and three children. Visit him online at KurtEichenwald.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew on December 09, 2012

The first 500 days after 9/11/2001 could have gone in multiple directions. We could have leveraged the tragedy to reconsider how we engage with the Arab world. We could have used 9/11 as an opportunity to re-evaluate how we monitor and take on threats. We could have used it as an opening to engage d......more

Goodreads review by Jason on August 07, 2014

As crazy and/or sick as this may sound, I wish I could go back to the late summer/early fall of 2001. I want to experience it now - again knowing what time and history has shown us. Since time travel is impossible this book is the closest we'll ever get to re-experiencing the entire panorama of it a......more

Goodreads review by Jean-Paul on June 24, 2012

I wish this was fiction, so that I did not have to believe what I read. The account of what happened in the 500 days after 09/11 is mind blowing, harrowing, even surreal, and so not according to what the USA stands for. In spite of the honest, decent work of thousands of Americans in the war on terr......more

Goodreads review by Brian on October 09, 2012

I'm halfway through this book and it is a page turner. It is definitely on my list of books that I will read twice. Only a very few books get that rating from me. I will read it twice because in my first reading, done in record time, I am sure to have missed some nuances. This is a great book for an......more

Goodreads review by Kat on June 18, 2022

3.5 stars in that I think this was written very well and managed to competently explain many topics but I didn't really enjoy reading this book. I think I would find a more narrowly focused book to be more interesting. This book details many different events occurring between September 11 and the be......more