Shares the stories of five American interrogators at the front lines of the war against terror, revealing the mental and psychological battles waged between the soldiers and their al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners.

Training -- DLI -- Huachuca -- British school -- September 11 -- Fort Bragg -- Reports editor -- Meet the Beatles -- Under attack -- Somali Bob -- Prisoner 140 -- Reports -- The ratmaster -- Other government agency -- Taliban minister -- Hasegawa and Davis -- Guantanamo -- The training manual -- Interrogators' games -- The exodus -- Missiles in the basement -- Al Qaeda's doctor -- Kandahar shuts down -- Bagram -- Numbers -- Task force hatchet -- How far to go -- Our allies -- Snitches and rumors -- Prisoner 237 -- The kid -- The Arab colonel -- Ricin -- The bearded ladies -- For me, the war is over.