The Colonel and I: My Life with Gaddafi

An insider's view of Libya's fallen dictator by the woman who served as his longtime troubleshooter and confidante.

For almost half of Muammar Gaddafi's forty-two-year reign, Daad Sharab was his trusted confidante—the only outsider to be admitted to his inner circle. Down the years many have written about Gaddafi, but none have been so close.

Now, years after the violent death of "the Colonel," she gives a unique insight into the character of a man of many contradictions: tyrant, hero,...