Beyond breaking point

by Peter Deeley

Beyond Breaking Point is the first factual study in print of the "art" of interrogation in its many present day Physical, mental and scientific. It is also a disconcerting but compelling account of police state methods by which half the world's population is still kept in subjugation. It examines the shadowy world of the interrogation room, the confessional cell and the tortured chamber. Beyond Breaking Point is essentially a story of today but it also looks at the evolution of interrogation from its primitive form as an instrument of the Spanish Inquisition to the sophisticated methods now in use for criminal, espionage, military and political investigations. It reveals why spies talk, murderers tell all, and prisoners of conscience are persuaded to deny their beliefs...

239 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1971