At the Bottom of the Sea: The Rise and Fall of Osama bin laden

Several memoirs, reminiscences, and commentaries about Bin laden have made their way into the public consciousness of the past decade, and yet there exist no biography that chronicles Bin Laden's life from birth to death. Perusal of these works shows that they usually seek to serve one of the three aims: to produce a portrait of Bin laden, to narrate the hunt for him, or examine the ideological and paramilitary strategies of Al-Qaeda in general or on some particular point. But to gain a bal...