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For Scot Wallace, there turns out no finish to the calls for and threats of a wild card in Saddam Hussein’s management pack.
Even the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq presents no respite for Wallace, a Cyprus-based import-export dealer. opposed to all odds, the wild card – a senior Iraqi bureaucrat – survives purges through the americans and the hot Iraqi administration.
Despite overseas sanctions, Wallace has traded with the Iraqi executive via contacts inside of Baghdad’s exchange division. Then, instantly, he’s contacted through Baghdad’s feared and dreaded inside Ministry. opposed to larger judgment he meets the wild card, The Baghdad Chameleon, and difficulties begin.
Wallace is extra entwined into this Levantine internet of intrigue while the Iraqi places him in contact with Boris, a Russian dwelling within the Cypriot port urban of Limassol. The Russian may be of aid, the Iraqi declares.
With such a lot of Saddam’s senior officers captured, or lifeless, how does this Iraqi continue to exist?
To support get a solution, the radical introduces a doubtful Syrian businessman, an beautiful East ecu girl, a former British soldier sacked for being homosexual, and the Russian who's stated to control the funds of a few Moscow oligarchs.
But fact is elusive within the center East, the place half-truth and gossip usually move for fact.
With the USA and its allies tied down in Afghanistan and approximately to invade Iraq, tragedy, loneliness and greed conspire to entice Wallace into the Iraqi’s capture. It turns into his personal center East quagmire.
The Baghdad Chameleon is determined in Cyprus, Syria, Iraq and Australia over the past months of Saddam Hussein’s regime and the emergence of an American-backed executive in Iraq. It seems to be at how members – and international locations – develop into trapped within the heart East and explores the case that each one countries – Western and rising – could be accused of abusing human rights.