A pair of former directors of counterterrorism at the National Security Council during the Clinton administration have signed with Times Books at Holt for The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Blueprint for Getting It Right, to be published next fall. They are Daniel Benjamin, now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Steven Simon, now a Rand Corp. senior analyst, whose award-winning previous book, The Age of Sacred Terror, was a bestseller for Random two years ago. Benjamin and Simon contend that current American policies have actually fueled terrorist ideologues in the Muslim world, and offer a new strategy for fighting terrorism. Editorial director Paul Golob bought North American rights from Esther Newberg at ICM.