Book by Insider Wilson Signed

A memoir by Joseph Wilson, the former U.S. ambassador to Iraq whose wife was "outed" as a CIA operative by a source in the Bush administration after he debunked a story that Iraq was trying to buy uranium from Niger, was signed by Philip Turner at Carroll & Graf. It was a coup for the editor, who had been pursuing Wilson even before the sensational development surrounding his wife, inspired by an op-ed piece Wilson had written for the New York Times called "What I Didn't Find in Africa." President Bush had used the uranium claim in a speech justifying the Iraq war, though he later backed away from it. Turner described Wilson, who was the last U.S. diplomat to actually meet Saddam Hussein, and who once offered himself as a guarantee for the release of American hostages taken before the first Gulf War, as "that rare example of a consummate insider who has seen too much." His book, called The Politics of Truth, was bought for world rights from Washington agent Audrey Wolf for publication next spring.