The World Trade Centre was both an engineering feat and a potent power symbol. Caram (former Detective Sergeant at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey) claims it was also a security shambles for almost all of its existence, a fact that allowed the 1993 bombing to take place.

An insider's personal perspective on Port Authority attitudes and their mismanagement of security functions at the World Trade Center before and after the 1993 bombing.The author was in charge of anti-terrorsit intelligence at the Port Authority and worked with the FBI Joint Terrorist Task Force investigating the 1993 bombing.