The Devil Double Original Book eBook Latif Yahia
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THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE
is the first of 3 autobiographical books chronicling Latif Yahia’s incredible life story.
It vividly describes how Latif was forced to become Uday Hussein’s ‘fidai’ (body double) and gives a unique insight into the extreme extravagance and cruelty of the Saddam regime.
Latif survived assassination attempts and witnessed Uday’s psychotic temper, rapes, orgy parties, torture atrocities, and sadistic murders. The book has recently been made into a highly acclaimed movie.
THE BLACK HOLE
gives a fascinating account of what happened to Latif in Europe after he escaped from Iraq. How he was treated by western governments and the CIA. How Uday sought revenge on Latif and vice-versa. How he was offered a British passport by Saudis to murder a dissident and how they beheaded Latif’s Saudi princess lover. How Latif made and lost a fortune. How he strived in vain for a peaceful life and survived 4 more assassination attempts.
Forty Shades of Conspiracy
brings Latif’s story right up to date by detailing his time in Ireland. His run-ins with drug-dealers, Corrupt Irish Garda officers and Irish politicians who continually denied him Irish citizenship.
His despair as a beggar on the streets and the happiness he found after he met the love of his life. His reaction to Uday and Saddam’s deaths and his opinion on the current political situation in Iraq all makes fascinating reading.
Book Description
In 1987, Latif Yahia was taken to Saddam's headquarters to meet Uday, Saddam's eldest son, and told that a great honour had been bestowed upon him that because of the great likeness between them, he had been chosen to be Uday's double.
For many Iraqis it would have been the highlight of their lives, but for Latif, a peace-loving man who did not agree with Saddam's brutal regime, it was not. He refused. Following a week of torture, and realising he would be killed if he continued to refuse, Latif was forced to accept the role.
After a gruesome training programme during which he was made to watch over thirty films of torture, hours of tapes of Uday, and undertake a final remodelling of his appearance, Latif was deemed ready.
But it was only after the final test, a meeting with Saddam himself, that Latif made his first public appearance. And so began his life as Uday's double - a life on the perimeter of the inner circle of Saddam's eldest son, a witness to the horror of his insane life of debauchery, excess and brutality, and an experience for which he almost paid with his life on more than one occasion.
From The Publisher
Latif Yahia has never attained citizenship from another country, still stateless since his flight from Iraq in 1992, he attributes this to the fact that he refused to work with intelligence services against his country. There should be a distinction made between Saddam and Iraq, being against the invasion of Iraq in 2003 did not mean that he was for Saddam, he opposed the war because he knew what it would do to the Iraqi people and the country as a whole and also who would be appoionted Iraq’s new leaders and what they too were capable of. At the beginning of the invasion, Latif Yahia warned the American led forces that ‘they may remove one Saddam but they would create one hundred and they may remove one Uday but make one hundred more’. This has been proved by recent events in Iraq, After his flight from Iraq Latif Yahia was considered by Saddam and the regime to be a Traitor, now within the new government he is considered to be a collaborator.
A no win situation.
You may or may not be aware that Mr. Yahia is donating his royalties from all sales of the book, to the Iraqi children Orphaned by the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the subsequent war.
The Devil Double Original Book eBook Latif Yahia
So I will say this the editing for this book is not so good. There were a lot of gaps and run on sentences and some misspelling and hopefully they will fix this. I read this book actually after I saw the movie 'The Devil's Double' because I wanted to know more about Latif Yahia and I must say that I was rather scared for him throughout the whole book even though I know he escapes in the end. If you saw the movie and read this be warned there are things that happened in the movie that are not in the book or the sequal to the book either and they left a few things out of the movie that was in the book but all in all it is a very good read if you want to learn more about the man Latif Yahia and what Irag was like for him and back when the Hussiens were in charge. Scary it was.Product details
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The Devil Double Original Book eBook Latif Yahia Reviews
Lesson on just how evil Saddam and his sons really were.
The kindle version isn’t very well formatted. Poor identification of chapters, strange symbols in the text, poor quality.
Although there are so many names in this book I struggled to keep straight, Latif Yahia does a good job of painting a picture of the horrors of life in Saddam's Iraq. Mr. Yahia has led an interesting life albeit fraught with peril. The book is somewhat choppy, but then he is not a professional writer.
It's hard to know what to think of this ebook. My first impression was that it wasn't very well formatted, and there were several grammatical errors. However, because English isn't the author's first language I was prepared to be forgiving. Also, it's a pretty good read, if only because we have heard so much in the recent past about Saddam Hussein and his two less than lovely sons.
After finishing the story, though, I followed up by looking up more information on the Internet, and there I saw that doubt has been cast on the veracity of the author's story. Of course, as he points out in the book, on many occasions the media were fed false information not only about the Hussein family, but also about those both inside and outside their circle, so perhaps this has had an effect.
What I did find rather unbelievable was the author's account of the weeks he spent in prison being tortured. I don't doubt that such things happened, but I can't help thinking that if they happened to anyone as often as this man claims they did to him, he should be dead several times over. At one point he describes being flogged throughout a series of days, one hour on and one hour off, as well as experiencing various other forms of brutality.
I have to ask myself whether the accuracy of the account is important to the quality of the read, and I must admit that it is. Were this a fabricated adventure story of life within Saddam Hussein's inner circle as body-double to his son Uday, it would be somewhat lacking. There is no sense of honour or heroism, for example, except on the part of the dead. Those who continue to live do so only by selling their souls to their masters. It is only because it claims to be a true story that the protagonist's unsympathetic character can pass the scrutiny of a serious reader like myself.
This was a very interesting book on the life of Latif Yahia, a body double to Uday Hussein, Saddams son. If you like graphic descriptions of torture, and the excesses of Uday Hussein, you will love this book. There are some sources who are saying that this book is a sham, that although there were body doubles, Latif Yahia was either not one of them, or his accounts are exaggerated. Be your own judge!
Extremely interesting take 'on being' Uday Hussein and the burden within
I like the book a lot, but most of the information presented in this book is the same as we see in the documentaries about Uday Hussein.
I'd just recommend you to watch the movie, and documentaries available on youtube. Don't waste your time reading the same thing you will see on your screen.
So I will say this the editing for this book is not so good. There were a lot of gaps and run on sentences and some misspelling and hopefully they will fix this. I read this book actually after I saw the movie 'The Devil's Double' because I wanted to know more about Latif Yahia and I must say that I was rather scared for him throughout the whole book even though I know he escapes in the end. If you saw the movie and read this be warned there are things that happened in the movie that are not in the book or the sequal to the book either and they left a few things out of the movie that was in the book but all in all it is a very good read if you want to learn more about the man Latif Yahia and what Irag was like for him and back when the Hussiens were in charge. Scary it was.
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