title: Mission: Black List #1: The Inside Story of the Search for Saddam Hussein---As Told by the Soldier Who Masterminded His Capture
author:  Eric Maddox 
description: In 2003, Staff Sgt. Maddox was an army interrogation specialist on his first field assignment in Iraq gathering information on bad guys. The unexpectedly rapid collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime made that category a broad one. Sent to Tikrit, Saddams home town, Maddox found no system for screening detainees to identify priority targets. That began to change with one of Saddams bodyguards, Maddoxs first serious interrogation and the first step to Saddams capture. With freelance writer Seay (coauthor, <I>Hello Charlie</I>) providing the polish, Maddox takes readers through an intense multilevel series of question-and-answer games that led slowly, with many false starts and sidetracks, to Saddams hideout. Maddox makes no secret of his mistakes: losing his temper, failing to control interrogations, seeking information rather than cultivating insight. We weren't in the United States and my job wasn't to hand down justice, he writes. His account is a welcome corrective to lurid accounts of interrogation techniques, frequently secondhand. The capture of Saddam Hussein, like all good intelligence work, was 5% insight and 95% patience. Brutality, Maddox makes clear, was not merely counterproductive but unnecessary. 8 pages of color photos. <I>(Dec. 13)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  Table of Contents
  
  
  [1\. What the Tide Brought In](part0000_split_005.html#_Toc484627779)
  
  
  2, [Calling](part0000_split_006.html#_Toc484627780)
  
  
  3\. [Grounded](part0000_split_007.html#_Toc484627781)
  
  
  4\. [Impossible Choices](part0000_split_008.html#_Toc484627782)
  
  
  5\. [Viral](part0000_split_009.html#_Toc484627783)
  
  
  6\. [Conspiracy](part0000_split_010.html#_Toc484627784)
  
  
  7\. [All in the Details](part0000_split_011.html#_Toc484627785)
  
  
  8\. [Classified](part0000_split_012.html#_Toc484627786)
  
  
  9\. [Unfocused](part0000_split_013.html#_Toc484627787)
  
  
  10\. [Wide Awake](part0000_split_015.html#_Toc484627788)
  
  
  11\. [White Lies](part0000_split_017.html#_Toc484627789)
  
  
  12\. [Loose Ends](part0000_split_019.html#_Toc484627790)
  
  
  13\. [Timing is Everything](part0000_split_021.html#_Toc484627791)
  
  
  14\. [Point of Contact](part0000_split_023.html#_Toc484627792)
  
  
  15\. [The Price of Silence](part0000_split_025.html#_Toc484627793)
  
  
  16\. [Communication Skills](part0000