num_pages: 214
description: Martin Amis first wrote about September 11 a week later in a piece for The Guardian beginning 'It was the advent of the second plane sharking in low over the Statue of that was the defining moment.' And he has kept returning to September 11 in essays and reviews and in two remarkable short stories 'In the Place of the End' and 'The Last Days of Muhammad Atta'. All are collected here together with an expanded account of his travels with Tony Blair in 2007 - to Belfast to Washington and to Baghdad and Basra. 'We are arriving at an axiom in long-term thinking about international terrorism' he 'the real danger lies not in what it inflicts but in what it provokes. Thus by far the gravest consequence of September 11 to date is Iraq ...Meanwhile September 11 continues it goes on with all its mystery its instability and its terrible dynamism.'
language: English
title: The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007
publisher: Jonathan Cape