Praise for Guantanamo's Child

“Michelle Shephard is an award-winning national-security journalist with the Toronto Star. She writes in a direct, accessible style. Arguably, her reporter's skill at transforming facts into a compelling story was an asset here. While Shephard has a point of view, she allows the characters and events to tell the story with minimal editorializing ... The reader is cautioned that national security and terrorism are a “murky” business; in the fog of propaganda, lies and misinformation, the truth may be elusive. Adept at navigating that fog, Shephard exposes complexities and moral questions by shedding light on dark places ... Justice and human dignity are indivisible: What we allow to be done to Omar Khadr, we ultimately do to ourselves. Guantanamo's Child challenges us to confront what fear has led us to do. It should make our leaders squirm.”

- Globe and Mail

“The strength of Guantanamo's Child rests in its hard-won detail, which infuses the narrative with authority, complexity, sometimes humanity, without the author passing judgment on events.”

- Ottawa Citizen

“Shephard goes beyond the rhetoric to lift the veil on a family that is at once both extraordinary and entirely ordinary.”

- Canadian Press

“The book covers the history of the Khadr saga and its political and legal ramifications. However, it is much more. It also provides a riveting account of the Khadr family history and its deepening involvement with radical Islam. All in all, a gripping and troubling read.”

- The Arab-American News

“You will be shocked, saddened and in the end angry at the story this page turner of a book exposes. I read it straight through and Omar Khadr’s plight is one you cannot forget.”

- Michael Ratner, New York, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights

“Michelle Shephard's richly reported, well written account of Omar Khadr's trajectory from the battlefields of Afghanistan to the cells of Guantanamo is a microcosm of the larger ‘war on terror’ in which the teenaged Khadr either played the role of a jihadist murderer or tragic pawn or, perhaps, both roles.”

- Peter Bergen, author of ‘Holy war, Inc.’ and ‘The Osama bin Laden I know’