……He might have been with them, in spirit at least, for nothing
now will keep him from his game, if Professor Taleb hadn't
needed an aneurysm clipped on his middle cerebral artery.
In the months after those conversations, Perowne drifted into
some compulsive reading up on the regime. He read about
the inspirational example of Stalin, and the network of family
and tribal loyalties that sustained Saddam, and the palaces
handed out as rewards. Henry became acquainted with the
sickly details of genocides in the north and south of the
country, the ethnic cleansing, the vast system of informers,……
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