Shares the inside stories of five American interrogators at the front lines of the war against terror, revealing the mental and psychological battles waged between interrogation soldiers and their Al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners of war. 60,000 first printing.
Chris Mackey joined the army at seventeen and was assigned to the intelligence corps as an interrogator. After 9/11, he was recalled to the United States, assigned to Task Force 500, and subsequently sent to Kandahar, Afghanistan. He ultimately supervised all military interrogations conducted at the theatre-wide detention facility at Bagram airfield.
Greg Miller is a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times.