Escape 9/11 in a Lifetime: The First Global Anti-Terror Novel

Author: Yang Fang
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Publish Date: 2002-12-01
Features: On the morning of September 18, 2001, I lazily woke up in a cheap hotel on Chinatown in New York, under the shadow of a group of skyscrapers. Looking out the window, I no longer saw the towering World Trade Center. A week earlier, these two 110-story buildings had collapsed into a pile of rubble. Now, only black smoke rose from the ruins. For seven days, the fire had been burning intermittently in the 1.6 million tons, seven or eight stories high of rubble. Firefighters had to use high-pressure water hoses and fire extinguishers every day to extinguish the smoldering embers, which significantly affected the rescue efforts for survivors.