"It's all here-Islam, the family tree, a sea of oil and money to match, palace intrigue...This is high drama and an epic tale."
-Tom Brokaw
Though Saudi Arabia sits on one of the richest oil deposits in the world, it also produced fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers. In this immensely important book, journalist Robert Lacey draws on years of access to every circle of Saudi society giving readers the fullest portrait yet of a land straddling the worlds of medievalism and modernity. Moving from the bloody seizure of Mecca's Grand Mosque in 1979, through the Persian Gulf War, to the delicate U.S.-Saudi relations in a post 9/11 world, Inside the Kingdom brings recent history to vivid life and offers a powerful story of a country learning how not to be at war with itself.
PREFACE: Welcome to the Kingdom
Chapter 5. Vox Populi, Vox Dei
Chapter 7. Jihad in Afghanistan
Chapter 8. Special Relationship
Chapter 10. Stars in the Heavens
Chapter 12. The Dove and the East Wind
Chapter 13. Vacationing Jihadi
Chapter 15. Battle for Al-Khafji
Chapter 20. Enter the Crown Prince
Chapter 24. Fifteen Flying Saudis
Chapter 26. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Chapter 30. Illegitimate Occupation
Chapter 32. Condition of the People
GLOSSARY OF NAMES AND ARABIC TERMS