Chris mackey with greg miller (1 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Uk Edition. Paperback. The Interrogator's War. Inside the Secret War Against Al Qaeda. Foxing to end inside coverrs, edge and some pages. In Afghanistan the interrrogatorsfaced an enemy who, with tactics like sleeper cells and suicide bombers, were unlike any other they had seen. Working round the clock, Mackey and his team had to discard outmoded Cold War interrogation techniques and evolve breakthrough psychological strategies and complex mind games. But the interrogators too were under immense preassure: relentlessly pitching their wits against suspected fanatics, ever fearful that their prisoners mingth know of another 9/11, but sontrained from unleashing their tempers by the Geneva Convention, it was not always just the prisoners who cracked. Mackey's compelling picture of the exhausting interrogations and pressure-cooker atmosphere which built up under the relentless Afghan sun gives a troubling insight into the temptations and obstacles in the path of sound military judgement. But it is also a testament to the strength of character of those many interrogators who remained professional, rational and played by the rules. Illustrated. 484 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).…