The official line is clear: the UK does not 'participate in, solicit, encourage
or condone' torture. And yet, the evidence is irrefutable: when faced with poten
tial threats to our national security, the gloves always come off. Drawing on pr
eviously unseen official documents, and the accounts of witnesses, victims and e
xperts, prize-winning investigative journalist Ian Cobain looks beyond the cover
-ups and the equivocations, to get to the truth.