2003. Operation Iraqi Freedom. After 21 days of combat the Ba'athist regime of Saddam Hussein is deposed. No weapons of mass destruction are ever uncovered. Over a decade later, Fly East Airlines, flight XFE233, vanishes over Russia with no wreckage to be found. Michael Grey and his business partner, Billy McLaughlin, suspecting something more sinister at play, are determined to investigate. They have good reason to. Michael Grey's girlfriend, Kiyomi Kimura, was a passenger aboard the missing flight. Together, Michael and Billy will uncover a plot so audacious it will eclipse even the tragic events of 9/11. "The Baghdad Conspiracy" deals with the scenario of a fundamentalist terrorist organisation gaining access to chemical weapons. Considered more dangerous than nuclear arms, the chemical agents released by these weapons kill and maim indiscriminately. They are silent, largely airborne and lethal. The geographical area these weapons can affect is larger - by some measure - when compared to the area affected by the explosion of an atomic device. There may come a time when an attack of the nature depicted in "The Baghdad Conspiracy" occurs - and succeeds. God forbid it ever does.