Escape 9/11 for a lifetime

Author: Yang Fang
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Publish Date: 2002-12-01
Features: This book is a counter-terrorism novel by young scholar Yang Fang. The work delves into the families of terrorists and the victims of the "9.11" attacks, exploring the trajectories of their fates in the "9.11" incident and revealing the many lesser-known behind-the-scenes secrets of the event. Terrorists do not appear overnight, and the people within the World Trade Center each have their own fortunes and misfortunes. Unidimensionally setting absolute standards of good and evil, as with expressing anger over crime or sympathy for the innocent, might be simple and easy to do, but beyond escalating blind hostility and conflict, there is nothing else... On the morning of September 18, 2001, I lazily woke up in a cheap hotel on Chinatown in New York, shaded by the towering skyscrapers. Gazing out the window, I no longer saw the skyscrapers towering into the clouds. A week earlier, these two 110-story buildings had collapsed into ruins. Now, only thick black smoke rose from the debris. For seven days, flames had flickered intermittently in the 1.6 million-ton, seven-to-eight-story pile of rubble, forcing firefighters to use high-pressure water jets and extinguishing agents daily to douse smoldering embers, which then hindered the rescue efforts for survivors.