The Guantanamo Lawyers

"Provides an invaluable perspective-or more accurately, perspectives, since more than one hundred lawyers contributed to the volume. These men and women, all working for nothing, have gained intimate access to those whom the United States sought to keep hidden behind strictly closed doors...The stories these lawyers have been able to tell, adroitly edited by Mark Denbeaux and Jonathan Hafetz, offer a multifaceted portrait of life on the base." - New York Review of Books "A valuable contribution to the record of an unfinished story bound to reverberate for years to come." - Kirkus Reviews "The desperate words, quoted here, of Gitmo detainees on torture grab the heart and do not let go. This compelling book on the American penal colony and its residents is a cautionary tale of overzealous executive wartime power and the awful mess it sometimes leaves behind." - Publishers Weekly "This is a fascinating and revealing behind-the-scenes account of the human stories inside Guantanamo, told candidly by some of America's best, and most public-spirited, lawyers." - Jane Mayer, author of The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals