{"product_id":"the-forever-prisoner-the-full-and-searing-account-of-the-cias-most-controversial-covert-program-paperback","title":"The Forever Prisoner: The Full and Searing Account of the Cia's Most Controversial Covert Program - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCathy Scott-Clark\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAdrian Levy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eEqually propulsive as a narrative, \u003cem\u003eThe Forever Prisoner\u003c\/em\u003e goes way beyond Jane Mayer's powerful and revelatory 2008 bestseller, \u003cem\u003eThe Dark Side\u003c\/em\u003e, which initially revealed the torture program. Mayer had no access to the protagonists themselves nor to thousands of recently released FOIA documents, so her riveting account was necessarily limited in its scope.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe torture program remains an existential threat to the reputation of the CIA, which is why they have done everything possible to prevent the story Scott-Clark and Levy tell from leaking out.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe authors' investigation was a primary source for the feature length documentary also titled \u003cem\u003eThe Forever Prisoner\u003c\/em\u003e, directed by award-winning Alex Gibney, to be released on December 6, 2021. It will get wide coverage, setting up the book, which has much more depth and dimension, for major media. Described by \u003cem\u003eEsquire\u003c\/em\u003e as \"the most important documentarian of our time,\" Gibney has directed, among many others, \u003cem\u003eTaxi to the Dark Side\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the 2007 Academy Award for Documentary Feature, and most recently \u003cem\u003eThe Crime of the Century\u003c\/em\u003e, chronicling the opioid epidemic.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Forever Prisoner\u003c\/em\u003e will appeal to anyone who has read the bestselling titles \u003cem\u003eThe Forever War \u003c\/em\u003eby Dexter Filkins, \u003cem\u003eGhost Wars\u003c\/em\u003e by Steve Coll, and \u003cem\u003eManhunt\u003c\/em\u003e by Peter Bergen.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eIn 2014, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence determined the CIA was guilty of torture, murder, and deception, and that these transgressions had produced no high-value intelligence. \u003cem\u003eThe Forever Prisoner\u003c\/em\u003e chronicles many details behind these charges that the Senate committee was unaware of in 2014.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eMany believe the torture program began and ended in the 2004 scandal at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Rather, as the authors show, this was an inevitable outgrowth of the program James Mitchell devised, which metastasized when the military appropriated it. The program then ran for four more years after Abu Ghraib.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eWe will have blurbs from bestselling journalist\/authors Lawrence Wright and Peter Bergen, from Alex Gibney himself, and from a range of high-profile writers and public figures the authors know.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe 2015 success of \u003cem\u003eGuantanamo Diary\u003c\/em\u003e, by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a former Guantanamo detainee, and of the 2021 film on which it is based, \u003cem\u003eThe Mauritanian\u003c\/em\u003e, underscores the strong appetite for understanding the darkest corners of the \"war on terror\" and how America reached a point where torture was deemed acceptable. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEditor: George Gibson\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCATHY SCOTT-CLARK \u003c\/strong\u003eand\u003cstrong\u003e ADRIAN LEVY\u003c\/strong\u003e are the authors of highly acclaimed books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Exile\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDeception\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Siege\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Amber Room\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Stone of Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e. Writing for the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, they have won the One World award for foreign reporting and in 2009 were voted One World Media's Press Journalists of the Year, and they won the 2016 CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction. 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