Iraq's Retribution

This final thrilling instalment in a trilogy that is set against the backdrop of Iraq between 1975 and 2005. In the first book, A Nastia Game, we meet Kathab al Jised, known as Kate, the head of research, development and storage of Iraq’s weapons programme during the Iran-Iraq war. She falls in love and marries James, an RAF software engineer who has been seconded to help International Computers Limited sell a computer war game to Iraq. Kate begins feeding MI6 with Iraq’s plans and hiding supplies of biological weapons supplied from America. In Bin Laden’s Nemesis, Juan Quayle, a gifted linguist, is recruited by Britain’s Security Services to infiltrate al-Qaeda. Having gained their trust, he teaches at a madrassa, learning much about their organisation and aims. After returning to the UK and debriefing MI6, he retires, but the tentacles of al-Qaeda catch up and destroy his wife and children. Vowing revenge, Quayle re-joins MI6 whose new director is Barbara Renton. They begin a passionate affair and hatch a plan to assassinate Osama bin Laden.

In R.W. Kay’s final book, Iraq’s Retribution, Kate’s husband and Juan’s partner are assassinated by the CIA. Using Kate’s knowledge of biological weapons, their vengeance is to plot the massacre of innocent American children...

‘The President was led to believe from Tony Blair that Barbara Renton might make trouble by letting the world’s press know that bin Laden is already dead, that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11, and that the weapons of mass destruction that are in Iraq have been so well hidden that they can never be found. In other words, there would be no earthly reason for invading Iraq.’

‘But if she’s dead, what’s your problem?’

‘I have a gut feeling that she escaped and almost certainly killed our men.’

Iraq’s Retribution is particularly topical as its release date coincides with the publication of the Chilcot Inquiry.