While I find it appalling on so many levels that we even need a such a book as this in the 21st Century US, I'm glad that I had the chance to read this. Torture is divided into two sections, the first being about international torture - it's history, putative usefulness, the exporting of torture...
The author of the award-winning and best-selling "House of Sand and Fog" returns after a long hiatus with this fictional recreation of the days leading up to 9/11. Building on news reports that the men who would later take over the planes on that fatal day spent time in southern Florida strip...