The Weight of a Mustard Seed Author:Wendell Steavenson How do you protect your family from a tyrant? For General Kamel Sachet, the answer was to hide in plain sight. A hero of the Iran-Iraq war, he became part of Saddam Hussein’s inner circle, learning to operate in a treacherous world where a wrong word could mean torture or death. — In The Weight of a Mustard Seed, Wendell Steavenson tells the stor... more »y of Sachet and his family, illuminating the choices they had to make—between collaboration and exile, defiance and survival—as their country was torn inside out. If this were fiction, it would be harrowing enough. But it’s real life. And as his story and fate are revealed, we gain a new understanding of the Iraqi experience unlike any other—one that sears the heart and pierces the soul.« less