Terry McDermott is a journalist who served as a national correspondent with the Los Angeles Times and is author of "Perfect Soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers, Who They Were, Why They Did It", an investigative non-fiction book profiling the hijackers of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks as well as the Al-Qaeda leaders who planned and orchestrated the attacks. McDermott has claimed that "Perfect Soldiers" is the sole book among "more than ten thousand" books published about the 9/11 attacks which focuses entirely on the hijackers.