"AN IMPORTANT BOOK...[THAT] TELLS US WHY ATTENTION MUST BE PAID." --New York Newsday At 12:17 p.m. on February 26, 1993, a 1,500 pound bomb tore into the underbelly of New York City's World Trade Center. Six people were killed, numerous others injured, the city's economy traumatized. The blast took just two seconds, but in that instant America's sense of security was destroyed forever. Now, for the first time ever, here is the complete, authoritative, inside story of the conspiracy and its origins, the bombing and its aftermath. Written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who first broke much of the story, TWO SECONDS UNDER THE WORLD reveals, in a vivid and gripping narrative, just how vulnerable America remains to terrorist attack... * The internal squabbles that may have prevented the FBI from catching the fanatics before they had a chance to act * How the bombers nearly succeeded in actually knocking down the Twin Towers * A shocking examination of just how close the plotters came to destroying numerous other targets, including the Statue of Liberty and the United Nations * How the one man alleged to have headed the conspiracy may well escape conviction "[A] FAST-PACED NARRATIVE." --Publishers Weekly

ジム・ドワイヤーの筆致は単なる事件記録の枠を越え、平和という薄氷の上にある現代社会の脆さを鋭く突きつけます。ピューリッツァー賞記者の緻密な取材により、わずか二秒で崩れ去った「安全神話」の裏側が、冷徹かつ情熱的な叙事詩のように描き出されています。 本作の真骨頂は、犯行の残虐性だけでなく、組織内の不和や看過された予兆といった「人間の隙」を抉り出した点にあります。事実を再構成したドラマチックな文体は、読者に目撃者としての緊張感を強いて離しません。未曾有の危機への警鐘として、今なお色褪せない重厚な魅力を放つ傑作です。