The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times

Mohamed ElBaradei

Bloomsbury,

352 pages, R550

When the International Atomic Energy Agency elected ElBaradei as its Director General in 1997, he stepped onto a stage featuring Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Kim Jong-Il's North Korea, Muammar al-Gaddafi's Libya, and the Islamic Republic of Iran. In his intensively researched book, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate gives us his account from the centre of the nuclear fray.