In this Wall Street Journal "Book of the Year", Michael Soussan gives a darkly comic first-person account of the oil-for-food scandal that rocked the United Nation to its core. The year is 1997, Michael Soussan, an idealistic young Brown University graduate has recently accepted his dream job at the United Nations' Oil-For-Food programme, the largest humanitarian operation in the organisation's history. His mission is to help 23 million Iraqi civilians survive the devastating impact of economic sanctions that were imposed following the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Under conflicting guidance from fifteen bickering nations on the UN Security Council, the Oil-for-Food program would oversee the use of 64 billion petrodollars against a backdrop of simmering international tension that constantly threatens to explode into an all out war. An absolute beginner in the world of international diplomacy, Soussan initially struggles to negotiate the increasing paranoia of his incomprehensible boss and...

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