The Interrogator’s War: Breaking Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan
ISBN 0719566193 (978-071-956619-6)
RRP $34.95
Paperback
Since 9/11, more than 3000 prisoners in the war on terrorism have been captured, held and interrogated in Afghanistan alone. But no one knows what transpired in those interactions between prisoner and interrogator—until now.
Christopher Hogan, Senior Interrogator of Bagram Air Base, lifts the lid on interrogation in Afghanistan. Inside the base, soldiers specially trained in the art of interrogation went face-to-face with the enemy. We learn how, under Hogan’s command, his small group of ‘soldier spies’ engineered a breakthrough in interrogation strategy, rewriting techniques and tactics grounded in the Cold War. Hogan reveals the tricks of the trade, and we see how virtually no prisoner went unbroken by the time Hogan’s group was finished. But one of his interrogators was broken too. And the truth they discovered was not what they expected.
Chris Hogan was a ‘soldier spy’ in Bagram for ten months and a Senior Interrogator for much of that time. After completing his duty in Afghanistan, he rejoined the financial services firm where he worked before being called-up for service after 9/11. Greg Miller is a national security correspondent for the Los Angeles Times in the paper’s Washington, DC bureau. He was the only reporter granted access to US interrogators.
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