The Curious Incident of the Wmd in Iraq

By Rohan Candappa

'Alistair said I should write something I would want to read myself. And I thought about that. I thought that this was good advice. Alistair is always full of good advice. That's why I like him. That and his socks. history. When I told this to Alistair he smiled. And then he said that the book would need an angle. Something that would catch the reader's imagination. Something that would intrigue them. Something that would sex it up. and narrator, is Anthony Algernon St. Michael Blair, the Prime Minister of Britain. He knows a great deal about New Labour, sound bites and why he makes a good leader and very little about the history of Iraq. He loves cheese and hates Gordon Brown. He discovers what he thinks is the central mystery and sets out to investigate it, but subsequently discovers a deception which leaves him forever linked in an uneasy triangle with a stumbling, inarticulate US president and a genocidal dictator.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861979002
• ISBN13: 9781861979001
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Profile Books(GB)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.4" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Never judge a book by its cover unless it's this one!

This is a hysterically funny book that in parody actually tells the awful truth about Britain's stupidity in getting involved in the Iraq War in the first Place but it is done in such a way you have to laugh out loud because if you don't you will end up crying instead. Written very much in the style of Mark Haddon's book "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" we quickly come to the conclusion that dear old Mr Blair and his many friends such as Alistair, Angi and Bill are really not on the planet with the rest of us mere mortals! Tongue in cheek is given a new name here is all I can say and I had to wipe away many a tear of laughter and desperation as I read each page, and yes, as the front cover says, you can read it in, "forty-five-minutes!" As with Mark Haddon's book we are treated to little black and white pictures along with clipped precise explanations that make us realise that most of our politicians and their cronies are fools and we are even bigger fools for voting for them in the first place. A great book that puts the whole sorry state of world on trial and finds everyone guilty as charged!

Tony's autobiography (not)

This tongue in cheek autobiography of Britian's Prime Minister Tony Blair is funny. The humnor is in the caricature of Tony and his close associates. The truth is sad. On the last page is "Who's Not Who" the story of the first casualty (read "dead person") of the present Iraq war. What happened since to his family? Are they alive? Is his widow a prostitute now to make ends meet? Or what? Te tone of the book is consistent throughout, which must have been rather hard to do as it cannot be this writer's natural writing style. A throughly enjoyable book (I gave it four stars because it is not great literature).