sentences:  Sands concluded the book "should be required reading for those who created this dangerous mess, starting with Messrs Bush, Cheney, Gonzales and Rumsfeld".In "The Independent", Yasmin Alibhai-Brown compared the book to the "Holocaust testimonies" of Primo levi and Rabbi Hugo Gryn, saying Begg "writes with the same authenticity and conveys horror without hyperbole".Speaking of the detention centre guards she says "the best parts of Begg's book are those which humanise these operatives and attempt to understand their confusion and corruption.