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An Education
Nation Books
June 2011
On Sale: June 5, 2011
336 pages ISBN: 1568586736 EAN: 9781568586731 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
To his friends and neighbors, Glenn L. Carle was a
wholesome, stereotypical New England Yankee, a former
athlete struggling against incipient middle age, someone
always with his nose in an abstruse book. But for two
decades Carle broke laws, stole, and lied on a daily basis
about nearly everything. “I was almost never who I said I
was, or did what I claimed to be doing.” He was a CIA spy.
He thrived in an environment of duplicity and ambiguity,
flourishing in the gray areas of policy.
The Interrogator is the story of Carle’s most serious
assignment, when he was “surged” to become an interrogator
in the U.S. Global War on Terror to interrogate a top level
detainee at one of the CIA’s notorious black sites overseas.
It tells of his encounter with one of the most senior
al-Qa’ida detainees the U.S. captured after 9/11, a “ghost
detainee” who, the CIA believed, might hold the key to
finding Osama bin Ladin. As Carle’s interrogation sessions progressed though, he
began to seriously doubt the operation. Was this man,
kidnapped in the Middle East, really the senior al-Qa’ida
official the CIA believed he was? Headquarters viewed
Carle’s misgivings as naïve troublemaking. Carle found
himself isolated, progressively at odds with his institution
and his orders. He struggled over how far to push the
interrogation, wrestling with whether his actions
constituted torture, and with what defined his real duty to
his country. Then, in a dramatic twist, headquarters
spirited the detainee and Carle to the CIA’s harshest
interrogation facility, a place of darkness and fear, which
even CIA officers only dared mention in whispers. A haunting tale of sadness, confusion, and determination,
The Interrogator is a shocking and intimate look at the
world of espionage. It leads the reader through the
underworld of the Global War on Terror, asking us to
consider the professional and personal challenges faced by
an intelligence officer during a time of war, and the
unimaginable ways in which war alters our institutions and
American society.
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