Terry McDermott (journalist)

Terry McDermott is an American 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 attacks in 2001 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.