Lawrence Wright likes Big Subjects. Whether in nonfiction or novels, he tackles the 300-pounder fearlessly. That was true in his excellent "Going Clear," an exhaustively reported takedown of L. Ron Hubbard and his Church of Scientology. (Read it - you will never be able to enjoy Tom Cruise in a movie again.) "The End of October" is his 2021 novel about a global pandemic. And he tackles 9/11 in 2006's "The Looming Tower," which won a Pulitzer Prize.