The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

Steve Coll draws on CIA recordings of Saddam Hussein's private conversations and declassified intelligence files to reconstruct the Iraqi dictator's fatal miscalculations about American power and the intelligence failures on both sides that led to the 2003 invasion. Shortlisted for both the NBCC and Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction.