This is a brilliant dark thriller combining a classic noir plot with anauthentic military background played out against the countdown to war in Iraq.Jonah Said ... » 

This is a brilliant dark thriller combining a classic noir plot with anauthentic military background played out against the countdown to war in Iraq.Jonah Said is a loner and a troublemaker shipped off by the British army towork with the UN in the buffer zone between Kuwait and Iraq because they wanthim out of harms way. Big mistake. From the minute he lands Jonah becomesdrawn into a deadly spiral of corruption and conspiracy involving RussiansAmericans Arabs and Brits and none of them tells the truth. And the truth ismore dangerous than even Jonah can imagine. Apocalypse Now meets The MalteseFalcon in one of the most dazzling and original new thrillers likely to emergein years. «