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Based on Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Looming Tower<\/a><\/em> traces the rising threat of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, and examines how the rivalry between US intelligence agencies may have contributed to the tragedy of 9\/11.<\/p>\n

I play FBI agent Vince Stuart, the bureau’s counter-terrorism liaison at CIA’s Alec Station and a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of John O’Neill\u2014the determined, at times bull-headed, chief of the New York FBI\u2019s Counter-Terrorism unit (portrayed by Jeff Daniels).<\/p>\n

Ostensibly the conduit of intelligence-sharing between CIA and the FBI, Vince finds himself regularly cut off from valuable information\u2014or forced to sit on it\u2014as the threat from Bin Laden and his followers intensifies.<\/p>\n

While the series takes certain dramatic liberties (my character, for instance, is a composite drawn from various real-life figures), the thrust of that drama is very much grounded in real events. For those who haven’t read the book<\/a>, it’s well worth your time, as is Wright’s 2016 follow-up, The Terror Years<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Looming Tower<\/em>\u00a0premieres tonight, February 28 on Hulu.<\/p>\n

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