“Rigorous, honest, devastating; I couldn't put it down.” —Vanessa Redgrave

“Gripping, furious and very serious indeed.” —John le Carré

“Sands has written a page-turning investigation into one of the darkest mysteries in American history: how a country that has led the world on human rights came to embrace a policy of barbaric abuse. One by one, he corners the suspects and sifts the clues, shedding new light at each step along the way.” —Jane Mayer, staff writer, The New Yorker Magazine

“Philippe Sands has uncovered the proper assignment of responsibility for torture and cruel and unusual punishment administered by the U.S. in the so-called Global War on Terror. Read this book to learn who made these decisions. More importantly, read it to learn how under George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney America abandoned its strongest pillar of power--its own integrity.” —Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell

“A remorseless, shocking, forensic narrative, Torture Team leads us from Rumsfeld's office in the Pentagon, via a score of eager-to-please lawyers and bureaucrats, and shows us the brutal consequences for one detainee. The parallel with Nazi Germany's descent into immorality is impossible to escape. This may well be the most important book to emerge since 9/11.” —Robert Harris, journalist and bestselling author of Pompeii, Imperium and The Ghost

“Sands's...book put[s] "the torture team" - the group of more than a half dozen Bush Administration lawyers who gave the green light for the introduction of torture - into sharp focus.” —Scott Horton, Harper's Magazine