Inside Out (38 page)
Authors: Barry Eisler
http://pubrecord.org/nation/4936/wilkerson-ive-conclusion-cheney/
We knew most Guantánamo prisoners were innocent
.
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2009/03/
some_truths_abo/
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/19/ex-bush-official-Guantanamo-bay-innocent/
U.S. torture—a jihadist recruitment bonanza
.
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/12/hbc-90004036
Torture radicalizes prisoners
.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/68872.html
Senator Durbin: Congress is corporate-owned
.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/29/dick-durbin-banks-frankly_n_193010.html
Health care reform creates new customers for the insurance companies and big pharma
.
The AIG bailout was a way of funneling money to Goldman Sachs
.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_
takeover/print
Halliburton profits from Iraq and Afghanistan
.
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/
Marshall Plan as corporate welfare
.
Thomas J. McCormick. “Drift or Mastery? A Corporatist Synthesis for American Diplomatic History.”
Reviews in American History
10, no. 4 (December 1982).
Congress’s turnover lower than North Korean Politburo’s
.
http://www.mediastudy.com/articles/av11-9-06.html
The mainstream media as “Church of the Savvy.”
http://uscmediareligion.org/?theScoop&scID=185
Why France lost in Algeria even though torture “worked.”
http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2009/04/23/torture/
The oligarchy includes journalists
.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/191393/
Arthur Andersen was examining Enron
.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/terrence-mcnally/qa-with-michael-lewis-par_b_248357.html
The credit agencies were examining the subprimes
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/24/AR2009042402902_pf.html
Above a certain pay grade, a politician can never be prosecuted or imprisoned
.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090914/hayes
Bipartisanship isn’t all you might hope
.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090914/hayes
The leviathan only grows
.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/radio/2009/07/02/
savage/index1.html
In addition to the sources listed in the preceding section, this story draws on a number of excellent books, all of which I would recommend to anyone interested in exploring the political reality behind my fiction.
Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond
by Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh.
Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
by Seymour Hersh.
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
by Jane Mayer.
Getting Away with Torture: Secret Government, War Crimes, and the Rule of Law
by Christopher H. Pyle.
Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Rendition and Torture Program
by Stephen Grey.
How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq
by Matthew Alexander.
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
by Philip Zimbardo.
A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror
by Alfred W. McCoy.
Torture and Democracy
by Darius Rejali.
The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable
by David Cole.
The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib
by Karen J. Greenberg.
Torture Team: Rumsfeld’s Memo and the Betrayal of American Values
by Philippe Sands.
Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror
by Mark Danner
Truth, Torture, and the American Way: The History and Consequences of U.S. Involvement in Torture
by Jennifer K. Harbury.
Your Government Failed You: Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters
by Richard A. Clarke.
Guantánamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power
by Joseph Margulies.
The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison
by Andy Worthington.
The Guantánamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law
by Mark P. Denbeaux and Jonathan Hafetz.
Guantánamo: What the World Should Know
by Michael Ratner and Ellen Ray.
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency
by Barton Gellman.
Bush’s Law: The Remaking of American Justice
by Eric Lichtblau.
Justice at War: The Men and Ideas That Shaped America’s War on Terror
by David Cole.
Nation of Secrets: The Threat to Democracy and the American Way of Life
by Ted Gup.
The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping of America
by James Bramford.
Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times
by Amy Goodman and David Goodman.
Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency
by Charlie Savage.
The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration
by Jack Goldsmith.
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
by Eric Hoffer.
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
by Neil Postman.
Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics
by Glenn Greenwald.
The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion
by Matt Taibbi.
Hostile Takeover: How Big Money and Corruption Conquered Our Government—And How We Take It Back
by David Sirota.
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman.
A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency
by Glenn Greenwald.
No End in Sight
by Charles Ferguson.
http://www.noendinsightmovie.com/
Secrecy
by Peter Galison and Robb Moss.
http://www.secrecyfilm.com
Standard Operating Procedure
by Errol Morris.
http://www.sonyclassics.com/standardoperatingprocedure/
Taxi to the Dark Side
by Alex Gibney.
http://www.taxitothedarkside.com/taxi/
Torturing Democracy
.
http://www.torturingdemocracy.org/
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
B
ARRY
E
ISLER
spent three years in a covert position with the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, then worked as a technology lawyer and start-up executive in Silicon Valley and Japan, earning his black belt at the Kodokan International Judo Center along the way. Eisler’s bestselling thrillers have won the Barry Award and the Gumshoe Award for Best Thriller of the Year, have been included in numerous “Best Of” lists, and have been translated into nearly twenty languages. Eisler lives in the San Francisco Bay area and, when he’s not writing novels, blogs about torture, civil liberties, and the rule of law.
Inside Out
is a work of fiction. Although certain of the incidents described are based on actual events of recent history, all of the characters—with the exception of well-known public figures referred to by name—are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. In all but the obvious respects, any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.
As of press time, the URLs displayed in this book link or refer to existing websites on the Internet. Random House, Inc., is not responsible for, and should not be deemed to endorse or recommend, any website other than its own or any content available on the Internet (including without limitation at any website, blog page, or information page) that is not created by Random House. The author, similarly, cannot be responsible for third-party material.
Copyright © 2010 by Barry Eisler
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Barry Eisler.
Inside out : a novel / Barry Eisler.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-345-51929-0
1. United States. Central Intelligence Agency—Fiction. 2. Intelligence service—Fiction. 3. Torture—Government policy—Fiction. 4. Extortion—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3605.I85 I57 2010
813′.6—dc22 2010009937
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