102 Minutes

Description: Originally published: New York: Times Books, 2005.

Brief description:

Jim Dwyer (1957-2020) is the author of six works of nonfiction, including More Awesome Than Money: Four Boys and Their Heroic Quest to Save Your Privacy from Facebook, 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers, and Subway Lives: 24 Hours in the Life of the New York Subways.

A Pulitzer Prize winner and native New Yorker, he was a columnist for The New York Times, The New York Daily News and Newsday.

Review Quotes:

"A heart-stopping, meticulous account. . . . I suspect that you, like me, will read this book in a single suspenseful sitting, even though we know the ending."
--The New York Times Book Review

"The chief virtue of 102 Minutes, Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn's unsparing, eloquent history of the struggle to survive inside the World Trade Center, is the authors' insistence that truth supplant myth. However comforting myths may be after a defeat, they're useless in assessing what went wrong and may actually be impediments to preventing future disasters."
--John Farmer, former senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission, The Washington Post Book World

"An astounding reconstruction of what happened inside the World Trade Center. . . . These are stories, after all, you have to share."
--Newsweek

"Exhaustively researched and smoothly written. . . . Dwyer and Flynn's most impressive achievement: writing in a way that confers dignity on each subject. This is one book that will stay with most readers for a very long time."
--People

"For those of us haunted by the tragedy, an indispensable book."
--O, The Oprah Magazine

"[A] harrowing, deeply reported, practically minute-by-minute and floor-by-floor portrayal. . . . Insightful, compassionate, and unrelievedly tense."
--The Baltimore Sun

"A masterpiece of reporting....succinct...riveting enough to be read in a sitting...heart-wrenching...Brilliant and troubling."
--The New York Times

"Poignant, emotion-stirring and important...a story of how ordinary people exhibit extraordinary traits in times of peril."
--Denver Post

"It took the authors three years to describe what happened in 102 minutes...The book is worth the wait."
--Providence Journal

"The writing - sometimes searing, sometimes factual but always appropriate - brings the human experience of disaster into focus."
--Boston Herald

"Many of the stories are astounding; almost all are heartbreaking...They accord these men and women the honor they deserve."
--Newsday