Dark Actors

By Robert Lewis,

Book cover of Dark Actors: The Life and Death of David Kelly

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One July afternoon in 2003, in a quiet part of Oxfordshire, a scientist went out for a walk and never came back.

Dr David Kelly had been all over the news in the preceding days; as an investigator on the team which went into Iraq to check whether they had…

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My fifth book is not a novel but a true story about modern politics and warfare. 

This book is about Doctor David Kelly, a biologist like me. Kelly led the search for biological weapons in Iraq before the Iraq war. Unfortunately, he didn’t find enough evidence to suit the government of the day, but they still went ahead by issuing a now famous ‘dodgy’ and ‘sexed-up’ dossier that was the excuse to invade Iraq. Shortly afterward, on a July afternoon in a quiet part of Oxfordshire, England, Kelly went for a walk and never returned. He was found dead, slumped…

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