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Saddam's Bombmaker

The Daring Escape of the Man Who Built Iraq's Secret Weapon

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Saddam's Bombmaker

By: Khidhir Hamza, Jeff Stein
Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
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 Khidhir Hamza, the Iraqi scientist who designed Baghdad's nuclear bomb, tells how he secretly developed the bomb with the cynical help of U.S., French, German, and British suppliers and experts and kept it hidden from U.N. inspectors after the Gulf War.

Dr. Hamza also presents a startling, unprecedented portrait of Saddam himself, his drunken rages, his women, his fear of germs, and his cold-blooded murder of underlings.

Saddam's Bombmaker is also a saga of one man's journey through the circles of hell. Educated at MIT and Florida State University, dedicated to a life of peaceful teaching in America, Dr. Hamza relates how the regime ordered him home, seduced him into a pampered life as an atomic energy official, and forced him to design a bomb. The price of refusal was torture. The tale of his escape, his first bungled contact with CIA agents, and his flight abroad will keep listeners riveted toward a climax worthy of a well-crafted spy thriller.

©2002 Khidhir Hamza (P)2002 Blackstone Audiobooks Politicians Politics & Activism Espionage Middle East Iran War Military Imperialism Gulf War

Critic reviews

"Gripping and unsettling...a rare account of privilege...with big houses, expensive cars, glittering restaurants." ( The New York Times Book Review)
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