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  John Wells: Book 4

  The Midnight House

  by Alex Berenson

  CIA agent John Wells returns, in a cutting-edge novel of modern suspense from the #1 New York Times -bestselling writer.
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  Ghost Plane

  The True Story of the CIA Torture Program

  by Stephen Grey

  For the first time, Stephen Grey tells the inside story of international prisons sanctioned by the U.S. Government and used by the CIA to hold and torture people suspected of terrorism.       Using contacts deep inside the U.S. Government, Grey reveals how deeply the Bush administration is involved in the program and questions the truth of statements made by Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. He also shines a... (more)
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  Micah Dalton: Book 2

  The Orpheus Deception

  by David Stone

  CIA cleaner Micah Dalton returns for another go-round of international espionage, government cover-ups, and high-intensity pursuit that has cemented this series in the best of spy fiction. The Orpheus Deception opens with a breathtaking assassination attempt on the rainy streets of Venice that sets CIA agent Micah Dalton on a collision course with a vengeful Serbian warlord. Picking up where The Echelon... (more)
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  A Question of Torture

  CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror

  by Alfred W. McCoy

  In this revelatory account of the CIA+s secret, fifty-year effort to develop new forms of torture, historian Alfred W. McCoy uncovers the deep, disturbing roots of recent scandals at Abu Ghraib and Guant‡namo. Far from aberrations, as the White House has claimed, A Question of Torture shows that these abuses are the product of a long-standing covert program of interrogation.Developed at the cost of billions of... (more)
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  Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights

  by Trevor Paglen, A.C. Thompson

  Â"We donÂ’t kick the shit out of them. We send them to other countries so that they can kick the shit out of them.Â"—A U.S. official involved in CIA renditions ItÂ’s no longer a secret: Since 9/11, the CIA has quietly kidnapped more than a hundred people and detained them at prisons throughout the world. It is called Â"extraordinary rendition,Â" and it is part of the largest U.S. clandestine... (more)
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  Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister

  by Gregory Maguire

  Is this new land a place where magic really happens? From Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author of Wicked, comes his much-anticipated second novel, a brilliant and provocative retelling of the timeless Cinderella tale. In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings.... When we grow up, we learn that it's far more common for human beings to turn into rats.... We... (more)
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  Static

  Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back

  by Amy Goodman, David Goodman

  Torture. Kidnapping. Bogus wars. Illegal wiretapping. Propaganda. Spies in the newsrooms. Oil profiteers. Soldiers who won't fight. Mothers of fallen soldiers Who will. In Static , the bestselling brother-sister team of Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! , and investigative journalist David Goodman takes on government liars, corporate profiteers, and the media that have acted as their cheerleaders. The... (more)
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  The Dark Side

  The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals

  by Jane Mayer

  A dramatic and damning narrative account of how America has fought the "War on Terror" In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. The radical decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were made in a state of utter chaos and fear, but the key players, Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser... (more)
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  Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Rendition and Torture Program

  by Stephen Grey

  On June 10th, 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that the US had captured a known terrorist who was exploring a plan to explode a "dirty bomb" on American soil.  That alleged terrorist was José Padilla who was finally charged in 2005 with conspiracy to murder.  What Ashcroft didn't talk about was how information against him was obtained – by the relentless torture of one man-- Binyam Mohamed, in the... (more)