Who would pay $100,000,000 to humiliate America?
The time, 1993. The place, Washington DC. The President of the United States, George Bush has been replaced. In London, Margaret Thatcher has been ousted by her party. In Moscow, Gorbachev has been toppled by forces he could not control. Of the adversaries in the Gulf War, the sole survivor is Saddam Hussein. And Saddam is planning a revenge so diabolical that the United States will be left with no choice but to retaliate.
With the connivance of a Mafia boss, the world’s greatest forger and one of the President’s Special Assistants, Saddam sets about his plan. Its purpose: the humiliation of the American people.
An unlikely figure finds himself caught up in the middle of this drama – Scott Bradley, a young professor at Yale Law School. Bradley is sent by the CIA on a simple mission to discover why a beautiful young Mossad agent has been dropped into the Iraqi Interest Section of the Jordanian Embassy in Paris, and unexpectedly begins to unravel this extraordinary plot.
Can a Mossad agent and a Yale professor stop Saddam before Independence Day?
Honour Among Thieves is a novel by English author Jeffrey Archer. The book takes place in 1993 with Saddam Hussein planning to retaliate against the United States after the events of the Gulf War.