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. |