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In this harrowing and unprecedented memoir, a man questions everything-his faith, his morality, his country-as he recounts the story of his time as an interrogator and torturer in Iraq"I was an interrogator at Abu Ghraib. I tortured." -Eric Fair, The New York Times, Dec 9, 2014In 2004, as an interrogator for a government contractor, Eric Fair participated in or witnessed a variety of aggressive interrogation techniques to solicit the cooperation of Iraqi detainees. They included sleep deprivation, stress positions, diet manipulation, exposure, and isolation. Years after his time in Iraq, he is still haunted by what he took part in there. But as his health and his marriage deteriorate, Fair's desire to speak out about his experience becomes a key to his survival.Grown from a series of op-ed pieces in The Washington Post and The New York Times, Consequence is the story of a kid who grew up in the shadows of crumbling Bethlehem Steel plants, nurturing a strong faith and a belief that he was called to serve his country. It is a story of a man who chases his own demons from Egypt, where he served as an Army translator, to seminary at Princeton to a detention center in Iraq to a heart transplant ward at the University of Pennsylvania. Written in spare and haunting prose devoid of justification, Eric Fair's memoir is the first of its kind: a brave, unrelenting confession of an interrogator and admitted torturer, and a book that questions the very depths of who he, and we as a country, have become.
In this harrowing and unprecedented memoir, a man questions everything-his faith, his morality, his country-as he recounts the story of his time as an interrogator and torturer in Iraq"I was an interrogator at Abu Ghraib. I tortured." -Eric Fair, The New York Times, Dec 9, 2014In 2004, as an interrogator for a government contractor, Eric Fair participated in or witnessed a variety of aggressive interrogation techniques to solicit the cooperation of Iraqi detainees. They included sleep deprivation, stress positions, diet manipulation, exposure, and isolation. Years after his time in Iraq, he is still haunted by what he took part in there. But as his health and his marriage deteriorate, Fair's desire to speak out about his experience becomes a key to his survival.Grown from a series of op-ed pieces in The Washington Post and The New York Times, Consequence is the story of a kid who grew up in the shadows of crumbling Bethlehem Steel plants, nurturing a strong faith and a belief that he was called to serve his country. It is a story of a man who chases his own demons from Egypt, where he served as an Army translator, to seminary at Princeton to a detention center in Iraq to a heart transplant ward at the University of Pennsylvania. Written in spare and haunting prose devoid of justification, Eric Fair's memoir is the first of its kind: a brave, unrelenting confession of an interrogator and admitted torturer, and a book that questions the very depths of who he, and we as a country, have become.