Operation Hotel California: The Clandestine War Inside Iraq - Hardcover

""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 Tuckertells a story we should know, but would not except for his bravery."Senator Bob Kerrey, member of 9/11 Commission.

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.