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Title | : | The Interrogators: Inside the Secret War Against Al Qaeda |
Author | : | Chris Mackey |
Book Format | : | Hardcover |
Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 484 pages |
Published | : | July 19th 2004 by Little Brown and Company (first published 2004) |
Categories | : | War. Military Fiction. Nonfiction. History. Military. Military History. Terrorism |
Chris Mackey
Hardcover | Pages: 484 pages Rating: 3.57 | 258 Users | 31 Reviews
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- Only the handful of Americans who participate directly in the interrogations of prisoners can describe these battles of psychology and intellect, of will instead of weaponry--battles that the public never sees.- Chris Hogan was senior interrogator at Bagram Air Base in Kandahar. Greg Miller was the only American reporter granted access to U.S. interrogators.- Hogan and Miller offer an illuminating examination of the psychology and physiology of lying and determining whether someone is telling the truth.- THE INTERROGATORS will appeal to the audience of "The Cell, which grossed 100,000 copies.
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Original Title: | The Interrogators: Inside the Secret War Against al Qaeda |
ISBN: | 0316871125 (ISBN13: 9780316871129) |
Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.57 From 258 Users | 31 ReviewsAssess Based On Books The Interrogators: Inside the Secret War Against Al Qaeda
excellent insight into the back story of the people that "ask questions" to keep us safe.Huge sacrifice that goes without notice or fanfare. Thank you.I don't necessarily have any problems with Mackey's writing style, which is mostly vivid, detailed, and moves nicely from page to page. My problem is with the book's intent. Is this a memoir? An inside look at our war with Al-Qaeda (as the cover promises)? A propaganda tool? A serious examination of interrogation techniques?I don't think the book knows exactly. Although Mackey is chronicling his experience as an army interrogator, he himself as narrator doesn't do much critical reflection
So boring I had to fight just to finish it. Would have been a good story, but seemed that the author was too worried about looking bad, to really tell it. Im not talking about divulging anything classified. Just seemed that after all the media hype about mistreating prisoners, he was tip toeing around what happened. Tried way too hard to come off as the clean choir boy. I appreciate his wanting to tell his story, but there didn't seem he really had anything to tell. And god knows he didn't need

Interesting account of Mackey's experience being an army interrogator after 9/11.What I mostly enjoyed was reading about interrogation techniques, I'm definitely going to read the Kubark Manual. (Alice: it's online, for free!)A phrase that stuck with me is " a person's body is likely to be the physical image of his mental tension". I think it's lenght made me rate it with 3 stars, I dont mind reading long books as long as it's a "page turner" but This one just didn't have me like that (unlike
This book is based on an American interrogator's experiences in Afghanistan. I thought the narrative might be more interesting than it was, but instead I found it quite disturbing. The attitudes expressed left me uncomfortable, and my general misgivings of the incompetence of the US military system appeared to be confirmed.
Very informative. Great stories and our guys doing good work around the world. This is a good picture of how this type of work is really done.
" The Interrogators" was interesting. Its not edge of your seat excitement. the author wasn't part of finding UBL or other HVTs. It's a journal of an interrogator's tour in Afghanistan in the months after 09/11. Its obvious the Army wasn't prepared to interrogate terrorists captured on a non conventional battlefield. Also the Army interrogators were extremely limited and understaffed for the surge of prisoners dumped into their laps. This book probably could've been shorter in length.
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