Even now, after more than 20 years, it is hard to see the invasion of Iraq through the cool, considered gaze of history. Attempting to bring all of the puzzle pieces together, Robert Draper follows the thread from the morning of 9/11 to the withdrawal from Iraq, profiling such figures as George W. Bush, Paul Wolfowitz, and Condoleezza Rice. As Draper confirms here, utterly false information was used to justify a verdict that led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and a flood tide of chaos in the Middle East that shows no signs of ebbing.