The Denver Post
"Remarkable."
Michiko Kakutani
"Admirable... remarkable power"
NPR's Talk of the Nation
"[A] gut wrenching morality check"
Newsweek
"This book has to be read."
New York Times Book Review
"A tightly knit and damning narrative... one of the most devastating of the many books on Iraq."
Time Out NY
"Gourevitch...brings to this study of the Abu Ghraib scandal the same graceful balancing of reportage and insight that marked his extraordinary book on the Rwandan genocide, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families... the shocks arrive through language alone."
The Los Angeles Times
"A compelling story... [Gourevitch] is a master of looking more closely, which means both more sympathetically and more critically... Gourevitch's account takes us outside the frame, giving us the chance to understand the dynamic of the unit in which violence and romance were S.O.P... The book shows how lawlessness became the law."
The New York Observer
"Philip Gourevitch's exemplary book will take its toll for years."
The Tennessean
"Gourevitch's eye for telling detail evokes the best of The New Yorker tradition-Capote's In Cold Blood, Hersey's Hiroshima... Standard Operating Procedure is essential reading for our time."