Shadow Lives reveals the unseen side of the "9/11 wars": their impact on the
wives and families of men incarcerated in Guantanamo, or in prison or under
house arrest in Britain and the US. Victoria Brittain shows how these families
have been made socially invisible and a convenient scapegoat for the state in
order to exercise arbitrary powers under the cover of the "War on Terror."A
disturbing expose of the perilous state of freedom and democracy in our society,
the book reveals how a culture of intolerance and cruelty have left individuals
at the mercy of the security services' unverifiable accusations and punitive
punishments.Both a "j'accuse" and