Dead Air (2002) By Iain Banks

A novel following Ken Nott, a contrarian leftish shock-jock on a London radio station, whose life unravels after items are dropped from a loft and the apartment’s TV reveals a plane has apparently crashed into the World Trade Center. The book moves through Nott’s political obsessions, media manipulation and dangerous private life toward a twin climax of nail‑shredding intensity. (Text matches the edition shown.)