Human Flow is an interrogation of the world's response to its unprecedented migrant crisis.
The novel is also a longer, more attentive, more serene, and better-thought-out interrogation of the world.
I'm talking of the extent to which, if at all, British officials may have sought to benefit from, or indeed indirectly taken part in, unlawful extraditions and coercive interrogations around the world.
John E. Reid & Associates is the largest interrogation trainer in the world and teaches such methods to hundreds of school administrators each year.
Heymann describes the effort to create "the best non-coercive interrogation team in the world" as the equivalent of "a NASA-like, man-on-the-moon effort" for human-intelligence gathering.
In tense, lethally well-paced interrogations, the Tudor world seems to be offering a terrifying foretaste of 1984 and twentieth century totalitarianism.
It is one of the best documented examples of extreme interrogation methods that critics of the Bush administration have said were later used as a model for other interrogations elsewhere in the world.
But each month fresh evidence emerges of the key role the Indian Ocean atoll played in extraordinary rendition, the ghosting of terrorist suspects to CIA interrogation black sites around the world.
I doubt that there is a survivor of harsh, tough, enhanced interrogation techniques anywhere in the world who would claim that they felt respected in the process.
"This is big news in the interrogation world," said Steven A. Drizin, a law professor at Northwestern University and an expert on police interviews.
After initially helping to devise the "enhanced interrogation" efforts, they were designated as the only two contractors allowed to oversee these interrogations at sites around the world.
