New York Times bestselling author Peter Bergen's definitive account of al Qaeda's evolution since 9/11 and the U.S. government's responses.

Holy tuesday -- Explaining Bin Laden and 9/11 -- The system was blinking red -- Kicking ass -- The great escape -- The home front -- The gloves came off -- Building the case for war with Iraq -- The war of error -- Almost losing the war the United States thought it had won -- Al-Qaeda 2.0 -- Al-Qaeda's quixotic quest for weapons of mass destruction -- United States of Jihad -- The new base -- The long hunt -- The fall of al-Qaeda in Iraq and the rise of an Iraqi state -- The Jihad within -- The end of the "war on terror"? -- Obama's war.