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On July 10, 2002, more than eight months before the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein's regime, eight American CIA operatives slipped into northern Iraq. They endured almost a year of being denied vital supplies by a NATO ally, Turkey, as they pursued a covert operation with profound consequences for both the War on Terror and the Iraq War: Operation Hotel California. Operation Hotel California tells the inside story of the dangerous mission that paved the way for the Iraq invasion--and delivers the most blistering indictment to date by any American counterterrorism officer of the Bush administration's blunders vis-a-vis Iraq and al Qaeda. Drawing on exclusive interviews with Charles Faddis, the operation's leader, and other team members, Operation Hotel California is a riveting work that will shake Washington to the core.

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Among Warriors in Iraq is hard-boiled and absorbing.Mike Tuckeralso has Hemingway's eye for description, particularly of warriors. BOOKLIST. In Hell Is Over: Voices of the Kurds after Saddam, Mike Tucker tells a story we should know, but would not except for his bravery. Senator Bob Kerrey, member of 9/11 Commission.

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Mike Tucker is a counterterrorism and guerrilla war specialist, poet, and Marine infantry veteran--and the author of eleven books. Among his works are Hell Is Over: Voices of the Kurds After Saddam (Lyons Press), a finalist for the 2005 Ben Franklin Award in History; Among Warriors in Iraq (Lyons Press); RONIN: A Marine Scout/Sniper Platoon in Iraq, named by the Salt Lake Tribune as one of the best nonfiction books since September 11; and six volumes of poetry. Formerly a visiting lecturer at West Point and the U.S. Naval Academy, and a visiting scholar on counterterrorism at James Madison University, he has led and witnessed counterterrorist raids in Spain, Burma, and Iraq; and has patrolled on deep reconnaissance with Karen guerrillas behind Burmese Army lines.

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