The Prisoner of Guantanamo (35 page)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

M
ANY THANKS
to Torin Nelson, Mark Jacobson, and numerous others who would rather not to be identified by name, for offering helpful insights on the workings of interrogations at Guantánamo, and also for their observations on the strange atmospherics of the place. And without the tireless work of the American Civil Liberties Union in prying loose hundreds of Camp Delta documents through the Freedom of Information Act, I would have missed out on many valuable insights.

Thanks also to Lt. Col. Pamela Hart, the Army public affairs officer in charge during my trip to Guantánamo in the summer of 2003 for the
Baltimore Sun,
as well as to the many officers and enlisted personnel who agreed to speak with me then. Although Pentagon rules greatly limited my access and freedom of movement, the soldiers who assisted me were at all times as courteous and professional.

Several employees of the FBI, who shall remain nameless at their request, were invaluable in educating me on the workings of Cuban intelligence agents in the United States.

The descriptions of all things nautical in this book would have been hopelessly at sea without the help of my dad, Bill Fesperman, who could outsail Revere Falk. Thanks also to my good friend Chip Pearsall for insights from his Coast Guard days.

And, for those who were wondering, yes, those “OPSEC Corner” excerpts from Camp Delta's weekly newspaper,
The Wire,
are authentic.

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

DAN FESPERMAN
is a reporter for the
Baltimore Sun
and worked in its Berlin bureau during the years of civil war in the former Yugoslavia, as well as in Afghanistan during the recent conflict.
Lie in the Dark
won the Crime Writers Association of Britain's John Creasey Memorial Dagger Award for best first crime novel, and
The Small Boat of Great Sorrows
won the association's Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best thriller.

ALSO BY DAN FESPERMAN

Lie in the Dark

The Small Boat of Great Sorrows

The Warlord's Son

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2006 by Dan Fesperman

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fesperman, Dan, [date] The prisoner of Guantánamo / Dan Fesperman.—1st ed. p. cm.

1. Guantánamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba)—Fiction. 2. Prisoners of war—Fiction. 3. Military interrogation—Fiction. 4. Yemenites—Fiction. 5. Intelligence service—Fiction. 6. War on terrorism, 2001—Fiction. I. Title
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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