At the age of seventeen, Lewis Alsamari was conscripted into Saddam Hussein’s army. The training was brutal, with discipline enforced by regular beatings, and desertion punishable by mutilation or imprisonment. Somehow Lewis made it through and, thanks in part to his fluent English, was soon offered a post in Iraqi military intelligence. The job would have made him powerful, comfortably wealthy . . . and a cog in Saddam Hussein’s massive machine of terror.
Chapter 2: THE SHADOW OF A TYRANT
Chapter 3: THE ROAD TO AL-MANSOUR
Chapter 8: THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS
Chapter 12: A KNOCK AT THE DOOR