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Product description THE TIER takes on an exclusive inside US Army account of the most recent war, an eerie love and a lot of passion, which all helped in bringing to broad daylight the very sequence of what it turned out to be only a tip of the iceberg leading to the mass and systematic abuses of mostly civilian detainees at the coalition prison facilities in Iraq.At the first glance alone, young Arab prisoner Tier Al-Jalaly appeared like yet another victim of the month of March 2004, at notorious Al-Ihram Camp in Ramada, built right in the middle of unpopular and extremely dirty conflict, with not a hint it will later turn into the affair whose outcomes are likely to be felt for quite some time to come. Though instead of routine and expectedly easy to accomplish investigating task Major Alan Brent of Pentagon International Legal Department had soon to find himself surrounded by loads of most dreadful facts and pictures he could ever think of existing, met with less then inhuman prison conditions, look at the eyes of greed, high incompetence and brutal abuses chiefly orchestrated by Sergeant Christian Starsky, John Sylvestre, or notorious Lucy Farani, nick-named as Bloodthirsty Mary. In his strive to reach out to truth and justice for all, backed by his superior officer Colonel Kevin West and lawyer friend Bobby Madina, Major Brent needed to simultanously engage on few additional, but not the least delicate fronts, first being to save young Captain Alistair O'Neally from his own destiny, then to regain the trust and affection of his only daughter Sarah, and ultimately ending in colossal battle for his own life as well. It was hard not to get amazed by the author's courage to portray the truth of the matter as blatantly naked as it seemed to be. I wish him best of luck in coming across with equally daring publisher, namely in the USA. Sir Clark A. Graham III As a mother who lost her boy to the tragic war I found Helen O'Neally as quite extraordinary, not submitting t