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Countdown to the August 7, 2007 release of William Gibson's Spook Country with news, thoughts, serious spoilers and chapter summaries in 807 characters or less.

Sat Jul 28

Chapter 63. SURVIVAL, EVASION, RESISTANCE, AND ESCAPE

Waiting on the Pacific coast for the boat that would take them to Canada, the old man tells Tito and Garreth that the CIA [defining interrogation protocols that “turned the SERE lessons inside out”] discourages torture, not for ethical reasons, but because how it degrades the “quality of the product… squandering potential assets.” [334 characters]