In the haunting tradition of In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song, this remarkably insightful and surprisingly intimate portrait of Saddam Hussein lifts away the top layer of a dictator’s evil and finds complexity beneath as it invites us to take a journey with twelve young American soldiers in the summer of 2006. Trained to aggressively confront the enemy in combat, the men learn, shortly after being deployed to Iraq, that fate has assigned them a different role. It becomes their job to guard the country’s notorious leader in the months leading to his execution.在《冷血中》和《刽子手之歌》这一萦绕不去的传统中，这幅对萨达姆·侯赛因的深刻而令人惊讶的亲密的肖像揭开了独裁者邪恶的最高层，并发现了其背后的复杂性，因为它邀请我们在2006年夏天与12名年轻的美国士兵一起旅行。经过战斗中积极对抗敌人的训练，这些人在被部署到伊拉克后不久就认识到，命运赋予了他们不同的角色。在这个臭名昭著的国家领导人被处决前的几个月里，他们的职责就是保护他。