"We also had to evade physical surveillance, of course, but that gets easier every time they add a new layer of physical snoopery - all the bells and whistles lull our beloved faculty into a totally false sense of security" (Chapter 1, p. 21).

"I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me. I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true" (Chapter 3, p. 39).

"The man who came in was wearing a military uniform. A U.S. military uniform. He saluted the people in the truck and they saluted him back and that's when I knew that I wasn't a prisoner of some terrorists - I was a prisoner of the United States of America" (Chapter 3, p. 47).

"We found a number of suspicious devices on your person. We found you and your confederates near the...