This book is brand new. ISBN 0-316-87112-5. Copyright 2004 (First Edition). 484 pages.

Book Description:

In a war with no precedent, where the rules are being written even while combat operations unfold, knowing the enemy's secrets is only way to win. You cannot learn enough to root him out by means of satellite imagery alone. No amount of eavesdropping will betray the balance of his treachery. To defeat our new and cunning enemy, he must be outwitted in gruelling, desperate, one-on-one confrontations.

Often times over coffee and a cigarette.

In The Interrogators we see how Chris Mackey and his fellow "soldier-spies" swiftly discovered that the techniques and tactics grounded in the Cold War were of no use against al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners-and how Mackey's group engineered breakthroughs in interrogation strategy, creating highly sophisticated ruses and elaborate trickery to bluff, terrify, and confuse their opponents to yield up precious information. And Mackey's team did so under the most extreme sort of pressure: the fear that one of these prisoners knew the details of a plot that might make 9/11 look like child's play.

From astonishing glimpses into classrooms of the U.S. government's interrogation school, to the battlefields along the Pakistani frontier, to the locked-door rooms where American men and women faced off against the enemy, The Interrogators is both captivating and controversial, forcing readers to confront the gray side of war. A real-life thriller, with the highest of stakes, The Interrogators lifts the curtain on the secret confrontations that will determine our future.