A startling spotlight on the darkest edges of America’s ‘War on Terror,’ where nothing is quite what it appears.

The Convenient Terrorist may be the definitive inside account of the capture, torture, and detention of Abu Zubaydah, the first ‘high-value target’ captured by the CIA after 9/11. But was Abu Zubaydah, who is still getting indefinitely kept by the United States under shadowy situations, the blue-ribbon capture how the Bush White House stated he was? Authors John Kiriakou, who led the capture of Zubaydah, and Joseph Hickman, who got guardianship of him at Guantanamo, pull a far more complicated and intriguing family portrait from the al-Qaeda ‘œmastermind’ who became symbolic of torture as well as the ‘œdark part’ of US security. From a one-time American collaborator to a poster boy for waterboarding, Abu Zubaydah became a ‘convenient terrorist’ a way for US government bodies to market their ‘Battle on Terror’ towards the American people.