It seems interesting to many people that world affairs are like chess, where world leaders play a game of check-mate with each other. But when the nation begins to suffer from the selfishness of its leaders, the situation begins to complicate. Guy Pulitzer-winning Steve Coll's book 'The Achilles Trap', written on the same story, uses the history of the Iraq War to show that America's sovereignty has always been presented as a hindrance in the same way that most of the world's leaders suffer today.

The book covers the beginning of Saddam Hussein's reign in power up to the US invasion of Iraq in March 2003, including accounts of US officials, UN weapons inspectors, and Saddam's regime. But the special thing about the book is that it also includes more than 2000 hours of audio of Saddam Hussein himself. These audios reveal the dictator's relations with global politics, local power, or America.

Through his book, Steve Coll has also enlivened all the generals or scientists who at that time had nothing to do but listen to their leader. A leader who was directly responsible for creating a miserable situation for the entire country with the deaths of hundreds-thousands of Iraqis, cannot directly understand his logic.

The book reveals the failures and biases of the Bush administration in a way that is little understood. According to the book, Saddam Hussein's biggest mistake was trusting America. This is also evident from a comment he made to US investigators about Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in the 1990s, when he asked, "If you don't want me to do this, why didn't you tell me?"

Saddam's statement that US intelligence had known that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, gives rise to a different kind of contradiction, which is also described in the book.

When America invaded Iraq in 2003, the reason given was that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction or 'if they were uncontrolled, it would pose a serious threat to the world. But when no weapons were received, America or its allies were forced to investigate political or spy failures and Iraq faced invasion, occupation and civil war.

In the book Achilles Trap, On the chessboard of geo-politics, the moves of power are solved with great skill, due to which America or Iraq went to war. The book also answers the questions posed by why did Saddam sacrifice his power after giving the wrong signal that he had weapons of mass destruction? In the book, Coll paints a broad picture of a man with a vision who was convinced that the whole world was behind him.