An epic count of ordinary men and women, that includes stories of bravery, courage, and overcoming odds including the construction manager and his colleagues who pried open the doors and saved dozens of people in the north tower. This work tells the saga of the men and women as they made 102 minutes count as never before.

Chance encounters, moments of grace, a shout across an office shaped these minutes, marking the border between fear and solace, staking the boundary between life and death. Crossing a bridge of voices to go inside the infernos seeing cataclysm and herosim one person at a time, Dwyer and Flynn tell the affecting, authoritative saga of the men and women - the 12,000 who escaped and the 2,749 who perished - as they made 102 minutes count as never before.