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Mission: Black List #1
Eric Maddox
The Inside Story of the Search for Saddam Hussein---As Told by the Soldier Who Masterminded His Capture
Harper
December 2008
On Sale: December 2, 2008
288 pages
ISBN: 006171447X
EAN: 9780061714474
Hardcover
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Everyone has seen the footage: a heavily bearded Saddam
Hussein blinking under the bright lights of infantry
cameras, dazed to find himself in U.S. Army custody. Yet
while the breaking news was broadcast around the world, the
story of the remarkable events leading up to that moment on
December 13, 2003, has never before been fully told.
Mission: Black List #1 offers the complete,
behind-the-scenes account of the search for Saddam Hussein,
as related by the Army interrogator whose individual courage
and sheer determination made the capture possible. In July of 2003, Staff Sergeant Eric Maddox was deployed to
Baghdad alongside intelligence analysts and fellow
interrogators. Their assignment was clear: gather actionable
intelligence—leads that could be used to launch raids on
High Value Targets within the insurgency. But, as Maddox
recounts, hunting for the hidden links in the terrorist
network would require bold and untested tactics, and the
ability to never lose sight of the target, often hiding in
plain sight. After months of chasing down leads, following hunches, and
interrogating literally hundreds of detainees, Sergeant
Maddox uncovered crucial details about the insurgency. In
his final days in Iraq, he closed in on the dictator's inner
circle and, within hours of his departure from the country,
pinpointed the precise location of Saddam's Tikrit spider
hole. Maddox's candid and compelling narrative reveals the
logic behind the unique interrogation process he developed
and provides an insider's look at his psychologically
subtle, nonviolent methods. The result is a gripping,
moment-by-moment account of the historic mission that
brought down Black List #1.
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