Honour Among Thieves has a wickedly paced political plot, full of all the twists and turns you can expect from bestselling author Jeffrey Archer. Who would pay a billion dollars to humiliate America? The time: 1993. The place: Washington, D.C. Of the adversaries in the Gulf War, the sole survivor is Saddam Hussein. And Saddam is planning a revenge so diabolical that the United States will be left with no choice but to retaliate .