Kill or capture - Daniel Klaidman

How has President Obama waged the war on terror? As lawyer-in-chief, he
promised to close the Guantnamo Bay detention camp and engaged his
inner circle in wrenching debates over the price of liberty and
security. As commander-in-chief, he has become a decisive and lethal
warrior, dealing out drone strikes and death sentences to suspected
terrorists around the world. Daniel Klaidman reveals Obama's struggle to
balance high-minded idealism and hard-headed politics as it plays out
behind closed doors from the Oval Office and the Justice Department to
the Situation Room and the CIA. Based on hundreds of interviews with men
and women throughout the White House and the national security
establishment, Kill or Capture is a startling new portrait of our forty-fourth president.

"A fascinating book . . . Lays bare the human dimension of the
wrenching national security decisions that have to be made." - Tina
Brown, NPR