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Hunting Down Saddam: The Inside Story of the Search and Capture | 
 enlarge | Author: Robin Moore
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 1143748
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 320
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0312936672
Dewey Decimal Number: 956.70443
EAN: 9780312936679
ASIN: 0312936672
Publication Date: November 30, 2004
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This authoritative and gripping account takes readers into the real and personal story of the United States forces in Iraq, and their successful maneuvers in capturing one of the most vicious dictators of our time. Hunting Down Saddam contains up-to-the-minute material and provides never-before-heard accounts of the triumphs and frustrations, strategies and attacks, of those who put their lives at risk to track down Saddam Hussein.
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 Read the Newspaper July 2, 2006
Adam Lunney (Australia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this book in the discounted area of a bookstore while on leave from work and now I know why. A lot of what is in the book is overly vague and generalised, and the rest is not written by the author at all (a diary from a news reporter and letters home from an American officer).
I quite liked the letters home from the American officer (if they hadn't been in the book I'd have given it only one star), but I don't see how anyone can publish a book with so little of their own content and still claim to be the author.
Apparently KBR treated the author really well, but what do I care - I wanted the story promised in the title, but got less than what I can read in the newspapers. If someone wants to write a book about private contractors in Iraq then do that and give it an appropriate title.
SF actions have to be vague on occasion to protect information or sources, but I could have written this myself, and I bet you could have too.
 Terrible April 20, 2006
John Demerst (NYC)
Very disappointed the facts don't check. About the only good thing was that Keith Idema was in jail when this book went to press and he could not get his hands on it.
 Dissappointed Vet March 4, 2006
J. D. walker (U.S.A.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I will have to agree with the rest of the reviews on this book. I am an OIF vet and was with one of the units mentioned in this book. Yes, I did take part in the capture of Saddam. Therefore, I was very surprised with some of the inaccuracies. The author has put out some good stuff in the past but I must admit that I was quite unimpressed here. If you are interested in the hunt and capture of Saddam, there is a DVD documentary out called ACE IN THE HOLE put out by the Military Channel. It's a good source and has some scenes of the raid...and I'M even in it. Ha,ha. Seriously though, save your money and get the video instead.
Not what the title promised.... September 24, 2005
Viking (S.F. USA)
I have to agree with the negative reviews on this one. I'm not sure why this book was even published, regardless of excuses made for deadlines etc there is really nothing interesting or new here.
The author, Robin Moore, is well known for his fondness for soldiers in general and the Army Special Forces in particular, and has in the past written much more interesting, albeit overly fawning, books on the topic. This book is a dull, slapped-together mix of Moore's comments, the diary of some random Fox journalist, and some letters and thoughts from similarly random officers. Underwhelming to say the least; there's even some really bad poetry thrown in, not to mention a recap of operation Desert One used as embarrassingly obvious filler material.
What should have been written with the quality and detail of Mark Bowden's Killing Pablo ends up reading more like "Old guy with Parkinson's goes to Iraq and pesters people in the hotel lobby to tell him stuff". No disrespect intended, but it's obvious the aging author had very limited access to sources and even ignored a few interesting topics along the way: He travels with a former SF soldier now working for a private corporation sub-contracting for the US military. Considering the massive increase in private contractors working in war zones, it would seem an obvious topic to explore, but no.
Wait for the real story to be published, this mistitled jumble isn't worth the money.
Read "Green berets", Skip "Hunting Down Saddam" June 3, 2005
Thomas D. Newman (La Paz, Bolivia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Like many of my fellow Special Forces officers, I "grew up" on Robin Moore's The Green Berets. I was excited to see his latest offering on the war in Iraq. Unfortunately, this book is a disjointed collection of Moore's travel diary combined with more substantive offerings from the diaries of officers and FOX News correspondants. Its really an old man's tour down memory lane courtesy of some fine American (and Coalition) warriors.
While I commend Mr. Moore on his book's patriotic portrayals of the brave men and women engaged in battle, I recommend that readers look elsewhere for detailed or meaningful accounts of what the U.S. Armed Forces are doing in Iraq. The book's hodgepodge collection of anecdotes leaps willy-nilly about Iraq. The reason that this book is so disjointed is that Mr. Moore depends on a collection of other authors' writings to make his book.
We read about the magnificent warriors of the 101st Airborne and the 4th Infantry Division (as well as Moore's buddies at Kellog Brown and Root), but the accounts are a haphazard collection of diary entries from unit officers and Fox News correspondants. There is even a small chapter dedicated to Desert One, the failed raid in Iran (what the heck does that have to do with capturing Saddam?). Moore's contribution appears to be limited to a few comments on how tough it is for an older gentlemen to move about Iraq. Our hat is off to you sir, but we want to read about the war, not your daily traveling arrangements!
Too bad Mr. Moore didn't stick with the format of his classic. I believe that a man of his stature has unprecedented access to the Special Operations community - access that should give him more than enough material for a truly engaging read about what our soldiers are doing in Iraq. Buy this one if you want to support a classic's author, skip it and look for something better if you want a good read on Iraq.
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