《THE POLITICS OF TRUTH INSIDE THE LIES THAT LED TO WAR AND BETRAYED MY WIFE'S CIA IDENTITY》

Chapter One. The Sixteen Words1

Chapter Two. Getting Started in a Diplomatic Career31

Chapter Three. Back to Africa with Twins51

Chapter Four. Coming to Baghdad77

Chapter Five. How to Shake Hands with a Dictator107

Chapter Six. Of Hostages and Convoys129

Chapter Seven. A Noose for a Necktie149

Chapter Eight. Watching the War from a Distance175

Chapter Nine. All in a Diplomat’s Lift－from Gabon to Albania185

Chapter Ten. Diplomats and Generals211

Chapter Eleven. U.S. Peacekeeping in Bosnia229

Chapter Twelve. Coming Home for Good239

Chapter Thirteen. Taking President Clinton to Africa261

Chapter Fourteen. Private Citizen275

Chapter Fifteen. The Road to the Second Gulf War305

Chapter Sixteen. What I Didn’t Find in Africa325

Chapter Seventeen. A Strange Encounter with Robert Novak343

Chapter Eighteen. Frog-Marching365

Chapter Nineteen. A Criminal Investigation381

Chapter Twenty. A Family Photo399

Chapter Twenty-One. A Long Strange Trip417

Timelines451

Acknowledgments455

Newspaper commentaries published by Ambassador Foseph Wilson before and after the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003461

Bibliography487

Index497

About the Author514