Matthew Alexander

How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq (2008)

Good, fast read about an US Air Force interrogator who (by his account) was instrumental in extracting the information used to target and kill al Zarqawi, head of the group Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI).The book reads like an extended episode of '24', albeit without torture. In fact, the central theme o...