The Mauritanian

Edited by Larry Siems

The international bestseller that set the world on fire, told in full: Mohamedou Ould Slahi's unflinching account of his fourteen years of detention without charge in Guantanamo Bay.

Previously published as Guantanamo Diary, this momentous account and international bestseller is soon to be a major motion picture.

The first and only diary written by a Guantanamo detainee during his imprisonment, now with previously censored material restored.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi was imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay in 2002. There he suffered the worst of what the prison had to offer, including months of sensory deprivation, torture and sexual assault. In October 2016 he was released without charge.

This is his extraordinary story, as inspiring as it is enraging.

'A vision of hell, beyond Orwell, beyond Kafka' — JOHN LE CARRE