Scott Ritter is the straight-talking former marine officer the CIA wanted to silence. After the 1991 Gulf War Ritter helped lead the UN weapons inspections of Iraq, and found himself at the centre of a dangerous game between the Iraqi and US regimes. As Ritter reveals in this explosive book, Washington was only ever interested in disarmament as a tool for their own agenda: regime change, whatever the cost. Operating in a fog of espionage and counter-espionage, Ritter and his team were determined to find out the truth about Iraq¿s WMD. The CIA were equally determined to stop them. For the truth, we now know, was that Iraq was playing a deadly game of double-bluff, and actually had no WMD. But to have revealed this would have derailed America¿s drive to topple Saddam Hussein's regime. Iraq Confidential charts the disillusionment of a patriot who came to realise that his own government sought to undermine weapons control in the Middle East.

Ritter shows us a world of deceit and betrayal, in which nothing is as it seems. A host of characters from Romanian intelligence services to MI6 pepper this powerful narrative, which contains revelations that will permanently affect the ongoing debates about Iraq.