'Ghost Plane' tells the inside story of secret international prisons sanctioned by the US Government and used by the CIA to abduct, hold and torture people suspected of terrorism.
Using contacts deeps inside the US government, Grey reveals how deeply the Bush administration is involved in the program and questions the truth of statements made by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. He also shines a spotlight on the heads of European nations who turned a blind eye to the program when it showed up in their back yards. Grey takes an unflinching look at an horrendous practice that scorns the Geneva Convention and is powered by corruption at the highest levels of governments worldwide.
Through interviews with senior figures in the current and former US administration, and the CIA's department of operations, and through unprecedented access to CIA flight records, Ghost Plane reveals how the agency's program, known by the euphemism "extraordinary rendition", has transported hundreds of prisoners to foreign jails and its own secret facilities in the full knowledge they will face harsh torture.
Grey paints a disturbing ethical picture of the war on terror and lays the responsibility for abduction and torture at the doorstep of Washington, DC.
