Redemption on the edge: a former dictator PR fixer reevaluates his career
Former political PR operative Phil Elwood recalls decades spent sanitizing the images of brutal regimes—Libya’s Gadhafi and Syria’s Assad among them—amid dangerous assignments, a spiraling addiction, and an FBI probe; after hitting rock bottom and seeking rehab, he now works on less controversial cases and questions whether his past can ever be redeemed or trusted as a narrator.