About the Book: Occupational Hazards
""From the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Politics on the Edge
'Absolutely absorbing Ken Loach
'Wonderfully observed, wise, evocative The Observer
By September 2003, six months after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the anarchy had
begun. Rory Stewart, then a young British diplomat, was appointed as the
Coalition Provisional Authoritys deputy governor of a province of 850,000 people
in the southern marshland region. There, he and his colleagues confronted
gangsters, Iranian-linked politicians, tribal vendettas and a full Islamist
insurgency.
Occupational Hazards is Rory Stewarts inside account of the attempt to rebuild a
nation, the errors made, the misunderstandings and insurmountable