LONG ISLAND, N.Y. – Random House Australia is publishing a book due out Oct. 16 by David Hicks, known as the Australian Gitmo detainee, about his nearly six years in American captivity atGuantanamo Bay, Cuba.
“David Hicks was there when I was there, and he was famous for threatening to kill an American
before he left. He threatened and abused guards, and this is in my book. His book will be lies. He’s an al Qaeda-trained terrorist mercenary, and will try and pose himself as an innocent victim of circumstance,” said author Montgomery J. Granger of Long Island, N.Y.
Granger is a three-time mobilized U.S. Army Reserve Major (Ret.) who wrote his own book about Gitmo, but with a far different perspective than Hicks.
Saving Grace at Guantanamo Bay: A Memoir of a Citizen Warrior is Granger’s real story of working detention and medical duty with the Joint Task Force 160 U.S. Naval Station in GuantanamoBay from February to June, 2002. Granger found himself the ranking Army Medical Department officer in a joint military operation like no other before it. His job was taking care of alleged terrorists, just months following 9/11.
In his moving memoir, Granger writes about the effort it took to leave his family and job, only to face hatred from the inmates he was charged to protect.
Now, after all these years, Granger is incensed to learn that Hicks, who admitted to his terrorist training in Afghanistan to gain his release, has written a book and may end up profiting from it.
“The talk in the news is whether or not he can keep the royalties from it. There are pundits saying that this book will define what really goes on at Gitmo, but that’s really what my book is about,” Granger said.
If you want to read the real story, one written by a true American hero, Saving Grace at Guantanamo Bay: A Memoir of a Citizen Warrior (ISBN: 978-1-60911-283-7)  is available through the publisher’s website: http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/SavingGraceAtGuantanamoBay.html
or at http://www.amazon.com or http://search.barnesandnoble.com.