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In a white-knuckle thriller, Khidhir Hamza, who spent twenty years developing Iraq's atomic weapon, recounts his life in Saddam Hussein's inner circle and his daring flight to the West.“Don't tell me about the law. The law is anything I write on a scrap of paper.” —Saddam HusseinTaking readers into the darkest corners of a regime ruled by a volatile, brutal leader, Dr. Hamza, the only defector who has lived to write a firsthand portrait of Iraq, also presents an unprecedented portrait of Saddam—his drunken rages, his women, his cold-blooded murder of underlings, and his unrivaled power. If pushed to the wall, Saddam will use the bomb that Dr. Hamza helped create.From the relentless dangers Dr. Hamza endured in Iraq to his harrowing flight across three continents and his first encounter with skeptical CIA agents who turned him away, Saddam's Bombmaker is a true-to-life thriller as rich in danger, intrigue, and personal courage as a well-crafted spy novel.
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Saddam's Bombmaker, Khidhir Hamza, Khiḍr ʻAbd al-ʻAbbās Ḥamzah, Jeffrey Steingarten
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- Rok vydání
- 2001
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- Titul
- Saddam's Bombmaker
- Podtitul
- The Daring Escape of the Man Who Built Iraq's Secret Weapon
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Vydavatel
- Simon & Schuster
- Rok vydání
- 2001
- Vazba
- měkká
- Počet stran
- 352
- ISBN10
- 0743211359
- ISBN13
- 9780743211352
- Série
- Štítky
- Naučná literatura, Historické téma, Autobiografie & Memoáry, Válečná próza, Války, Vojenství, Biografie, Politické teorie, Občanské právo, Irák, Jaderné zbraně, Tálibán, Vojenská politika
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- In a white-knuckle thriller, Khidhir Hamza, who spent twenty years developing Iraq's atomic weapon, recounts his life in Saddam Hussein's inner circle and his daring flight to the West.“Don't tell me about the law. The law is anything I write on a scrap of paper.” —Saddam HusseinTaking readers into the darkest corners of a regime ruled by a volatile, brutal leader, Dr. Hamza, the only defector who has lived to write a firsthand portrait of Iraq, also presents an unprecedented portrait of Saddam—his drunken rages, his women, his cold-blooded murder of underlings, and his unrivaled power. If pushed to the wall, Saddam will use the bomb that Dr. Hamza helped create.From the relentless dangers Dr. Hamza endured in Iraq to his harrowing flight across three continents and his first encounter with skeptical CIA agents who turned him away, Saddam's Bombmaker is a true-to-life thriller as rich in danger, intrigue, and personal courage as a well-crafted spy novel.