It doesn’t often happen that the first book of an unknown author becomes the bestseller of the year and is published almost simultaneously in sixteen countries around the world. But this is exactly what happened in 1993 with the action-packed novel by David Mason, which you are holding in your hands. A professional military man, fluent in small arms, he managed with extraordinary literary skill to create a work that, in terms of the topicality of the topic, the dynamics of the plot and the sensationalism of previously unpublished details about the “Gulf War” of 1991, has no equal. The book is about the assassination attempt on Saddam Hussein, about who organized the conspiracy and how. The fate of the conspirators and the identity of the minister behind the whole conspiracy are revealed only on the last pages. Only one question remains unanswered: did this really happen?