The Nineteen

THERE WERE NINETEEN HIJACKERS
YOU KNOW ABOUT.

AND ONE YOU DON’T.

In January 2000, nearly a dozen of Osama bin Laden's most trusted lieutenants gathered secretly in Malaysia to plan an attack on America, an attack the world would one day call 9/11.

When the meeting ended, some of the Al-Qaeda commanders returned to Afghanistan, but the rest went to Bangkok. Why did they go to Bangkok after the plan for 9/11 was in motion? No one knew. The CIA lost track of them.

THE NINETEEN is a novel about four Americans in Bangkok who banded together in January 2000 to do what the CIA couldn’t do. Find the Al-Qaeda commanders in the city and discover what they were planning.

They got close. Tantalizingly close. They just didn’t get quite close enough.

After the World Trade Center vanished in a cloud of fire and dust, they looked at the photographs of the smoldering ruins and realized they might have stopped it. They thought nothing could be worse than knowing they had failed.

Then they discovered there was something worse.

There was something much worse.