Critical Praise

"Absorbing . . . Packer provides page after page of vivid description of the haphazard, poorly planned and almost criminally executed occupation of Iraq."

——Fareed Zakaria, The New York Times Book Review

"Using on-the-ground reporting and a talent for storytelling, [Packer] offers the vivid detail and balanced analysis that have made him one of the leading chroniclers of the Iraq war."

——Yonatan Lupu, San Francisco Chronicle

"The richest, most unsettling synthesis of reporting and careful thinking to come out of either Washington or Baghdad about the conflict."

——Robert Ruby, The Baltimore Sun