I saw this author on "The Daily Show" and thought his book sounded interesting. He is an interrogator who worked in Iraq to ultimately help track down Zarqawi without using torture. It is the first book I have read which had passages blacked out by the Department of Defense. This is a hard book to review because it deals with so many complicated issues -- issues which people feel really strongly about. So for me personally, the struggle was this -- it is great to show that interrogators can extract information from people by being respectful, and more importantly, by not using torture. But at the same time, the information that they DO collect is still being used to ultimately go kill someone. I thought the author did a good job showing the humanity of the people he interrogated -- showing that they cared about their families and that they felt helpless in their war-torn country to do anything but join up with the insurgency. At the same time, he was also really honest (and graphic) about how much hatred he felt when he watched videos of beheadings and suicide bombings and how hard it was to then go in and be respectful toward the people who were responsible for those atrocities. He admitted to mistakes -- times when false intelligence or tactical errors led to the deaths of innocent people, and that was hard to read. In all, the book provided a lot of interesting insight into the inner workings of interrogations in Iraq, and how many shades of gray there are about every part of the process.