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After the Fall

By: Peter McDonnell, Bobby Chacon
Narrated by: Dion Graham
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  • Episode 1: Before the Fall

    Episode 1: Before the Fall
    Sep 2 2021

    When Al Qaeda bombs the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the FBI makes Osama bin Laden its most wanted terrorist.
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  • Episode 2: Missing Pieces

    Episode 2: Missing Pieces
    Sep 2 2021

    After Al Qaeda bombs the USS Cole in Yemen, agents at the FBI’s New York Field Office try to figure out what the terrorist group is planning next.
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  • Episode 3: The Attack

    Episode 3: The Attack
    Sep 2 2021

    On the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, planes crash into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field near Shanksville, PA. FBI Agents immediately respond to the crime scenes.
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Peter McDonnell
Bobby Chacon
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About the Creator and Writer

Peter McDonnell is a creator and writer of The New York Times best seller Evil Has a Name, as well as Call Me God, selected as one of Audible’s Top 10 Listens of 2019, Shootout, Brooklyn North, The Riddle of Emmon Bodfish, and A Devil in the Valley. He was a co-executive producer of the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary series Pandemic and the NBC documentary series The Forgotten West Memphis Three. Peter runs the audio department at XG Productions. He’s a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and has an MFA from Oregon State University, where he also taught writing. A native of St. Louis, he lives in Los Angeles.

About the Creator and Writer

Bobby Chacon is a former FBI agent who worked out of the New York and Los Angeles Field Offices. Chacon grew up in Long Island, earned a law degree from Hofstra University, and at the FBI worked kidnappings, bank robberies, and violent international drug syndicates, including investigating the Lucchese crime family and providing counterterrorism security at the 2002 and 2004 Olympics. He also led the FBI’s Underwater Forensic Program to collect evidence at the crash scenes of TWA 800 and the Space Shuttle Columbia.
In 2005 Chacon was assigned to Baghdad, Iraq to help form the Baghdad Police Academy, where he taught criminal and counter terrorism investigations. For the next eight years he was the full-time team leader of the FBI’s Los Angeles Dive Team, traveling the globe performing search and recovery operations and training. After a 27-year career, Chacon retired from the FBI in 2014.
In 2015 Chacon became the technical advisor on Criminal Minds Beyond Borders, then for season 14 of Criminal Minds, where he also became a writers’ consultant. Chacon then co-wrote an episode of season 15 of Criminal Minds. He has since worked on series for HBO Max and ABC.

XG Production Credits

Created and Written by: Peter McDonnell and Bobby Chacon
Presented by: Dion Graham
Executive Producers: Peter McDonnell, Jim Clemente, and Tim Clemente, Spencer Gordon, Peter Clemente
Co-Executive Producer: Bobby Chacon
Edited by: Peter McDonnell and Andrea Bruce
Senior Producer: Francey Hakes
Story Producer: Marie Giorda
Production Coordinator: Sydney Sidell
Recording Engineer for Narration: David Turk
Dialogue Editing, Sound Design, Mixed, and Mastered by: Matt Gurgol
Cover Illustration by: Mark Smith
Produced by: XG Productions

About the Performer

Dion Graham, from HBO’s The Wire, also narrates The First 48 on A&E. An award-winning and critically acclaimed actor and narrator, he has performed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, internationally, in films, and in several hit television series. He's been honored with numerous Audie Awards, the Odyssey Award (and Odyssey Honors), many AudioFile Earphone awards, and multiple Publisher's Weekly Listen Up Awards. He's been named an AudioFile Golden Voice, Booklist's Voice of Choice, and to various other 'Best Of' lists. He's also in the Audible Hall of Fame. Known for excellence across genres his performances have been praised as thoughtful and compelling, vivid, and full of life.

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Why should you listen to this story now?
"In the lead-up to the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we asked a couple of dozen current and former FBI agents who were at the attack sites and around the world that day to tell us about the investigation they led, the terrorists they captured and interrogated, and the crime scenes they spent months digging through. The result is an original, sweeping, and active saga of the FBI’s 9/11 investigation—the biggest case in FBI history. Many of the stories had never been told, much less heard together. The news of the Taliban’s sudden return to power in Afghanistan adds an unexpected importance to this story. The war in Afghanistan was a consequence of 9/11. Twenty years ago, the FBI embedded with the military and helped them identify targets to dismantle al-Qaeda and capture suspects. Back then, the Taliban gave Osama bin Laden safe harbor. We hope that history will not repeat itself. We also hope that listeners will find this series not just riveting but also valuable as the history of 9/11 and its aftermath continues to be written and understood." –- Peter McDonnell and Bobby Chacon, creators and writers of After the Fall

Featured Article: In the Oral Histories of 9/11, Grief, Hope, and Heroism Find a Voice


Memories passed down through storytelling have been a vital part of culture since the dawn of civilization, and we've all had moments of pained reminiscence: Where were you on that day? There are few accounts more powerful than audio recollections of the lived histories of 9/11—their words, their voices, their stories all ensure we will never forget, that the passage of time will never erode the memory of those loved, lost, and left behind.

Featured Article In the Oral Histories of 9/11 Grief Hope and Heroism Find a Voice

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Wow. I'm impressed. Pretty FBI-centric, but good.

Wouldve loved more from some non-FBI folks, but I've learned alot & really enjoyed it.

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blown away

I learned so much. I was in high school when 9/11 happened. I was oblivious to some aspects and learned so so much from this series. I enjoyed listening to the whole thing. highly recommend for everyone

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Solid

A worthwhile podcast to listen to with your ears. Is that enough? Not yet? Now?

Ok,

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Fascinating historical info

Graham has a superior and pleasing speaking voice making a desperately sad chapter in American history easier to take in and learn from.

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This book is a tribute to the people who worked and to families that lost someone on 9/11

Listening the book After The Fall was priceless to me because I didn’t know how big was the impact of this terrorist attack. I didn’t know that so many people, organizations and civilians were involved to find the perpetrators of these attacks. I cried and in some episodes I listened over and over to understand questions that came to my mind when I was listening. This book deserves a 5 stars

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Brilliant Collaboration, Expert Retelling.

If there's an award to be won for audio books, this wins, hands down.

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Informative and riveting

Flows nicely and I learned quite a bit about the process of how 9/11 happened.

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a version of the 911 story I had not heard

this is very well done. I have heard stories from Jim and Tim Clemente on Best Case Worst Case but to hear them in conjunction with other FBI agents was really touching and informative. Understanding the scope as well as limitations of the FBI during this time was frustrating but important knowledge.

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Excellent

Wow! The only thing missing here was the video footage because this is pretty an immersing documentary instead of just an audiobook. The quality of the sound, the cohesive and sequence of each episode is unmatched. And, this is one of best the documentaries of its kind. New information that was not available or shared somewhere else. Thank you.

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Great listen

This series is a great listen for everyone, especially those too young to remember 9/11. I was only 2/12 on 9/11 and this series helped me get a greater understanding of the 9/11 plot and our efforts to bring the terrorists to justice.

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