After 9/11, came Gitmo
Saving Grace at
Guantanamo Bay: A Memoir of a Citizen Warrior
is the true story of working detention and medical duty with the Joint
Task Force 160 U.S. Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from February
to June, 2002.
U.S. Army
Reserve Captain Montgomery J. Granger found himself the ranking Army
Medical Department officer in a joint military operation that was like
no other before it. His job was taking care of alleged terrorists, just
months following the events of September 11, 2001.
Granger and
his fellow reservists ended up running the Joint Detainee Operations
Group at Guantanamo Bay’s infamous Camp X-Ray. In his moving memoir,
Granger writes about the effort it took to leave his family and job back
home, only to face tremendous emotion and hatred against the inmates he
was charged to protect.
With the
supportive love of his far-off family, Granger finds a way to keep his
sanity and dignity intact. Saving
Grace at Guantanamo Bay is his powerful story.
“Hard as it is to
believe, one of the most significant stories of the post-9/11 age is
also one of the least known – life at Gitmo, the detention facility for
many of the world’s worst terrorists. Few individuals are more qualified
to tell this story than Montgomery Granger, a citizen soldier, family
man, dedicated educator, and Army Reserve medical officer involved in
one of the most intriguing military missions of our time.
Saving Grace at Guantanamo Bay
is about that historic experience, and it relates not only what it was
like for Granger to live and work at Gitmo, but about the sacrifices
made by him and his fellow Reservists serving around the world.”
– Andrew
Carroll, editor of The New York Times bestsellers,
War Letters and
Behind the Lines
