The book under review is one of the most comprehensive intellectual efforts to address the thorny issue of torture that I have seen... Putting the discussion of torture in the broader perspective of torture in general and of the nature of morality is not the only merit of this book; Kramer also zooms in on the particularities that come with interrogational torture. He discusses and analyses in great detail competing interpretations of the wrongfulness of torture by drawing on a wealth of cases. As a result, Kramers book provides us with an extensive overview of the recent discussion on (interrogational) torture. The manner in which he dissects these interpretations and cases is often illuminating... Even if one is not convinced by Kramers distinction between moral permissibility and moral optimality, the book still provides a comprehensive treatment of the literature on torture.