The Achilles Trap Mothers Day metafictional send-up of the Mexican

metafictional send-up of the Mexican literary scene told through the unreliable recollections of an aging critic’s friends

from Yuri Gagarin to Neil Armstrong

’ DAME KATHERINE GRAINGER DBE ‘I owe so much to Mary Peters

Mat’s work blurs the boundary between high and low culture

The Achilles Trap Mothers Day metafictional send-up of the Mexican**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2024** **A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY THE NEW YORKER** From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Ghost Wars, the inside story of America's long and ruinous relationship with Saddam Hussein The Achilles Trap masterfully untangles the people, ploys of power and geopolitics that led to America's disastrous war with Iraq and, for the first time, details America's fundamental miscalculations during its ruinous,