Torture and the Ticking Bomb

This timely and passionate book is the first to address itself to Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz s controversial arguments for the limited use of interrogational torture and its legalisation.Argues that the respectability Dershowitz's arguments confer on the view that torture is a legitimate weapon in the war on terror needs urgently to be counteredTakes on the advocates of torture on their own utilitarian groundsTimely and passionately written, in an accessible, jargon-free styleForms part of the provocative and timely "Blackwell Public Philosophy" series"