Stephen Grey

Broschiertes Buch

The New Spymasters

Inside Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror

Beschreibung

Spying has changed. In this era of email intercepts and drone strikes, spooks are expected to uncover plots buried in mountains of data. Yet this makes the need for trained field operatives who can verify facts and uncover secrets more acute than ever. The human factor endures. This book gives an account of how modern espionage works.

Autor

Stephen Grey is a British writer, broadcaster and investigative reporter with over two decades of experience of reporting on intelligence issues. He is best known for his world exclusive revelations about the CIA's programme of 'extraordinary rendition', as well as reports from Iraq and Afghanistan. A former foreign correspondent and investigations editor with The Sunday Times, he has reported for The New York Times, the Guardian, BBC and Channel 4, and is currently a special correspondent with Reuters. Grey is the author of Ghost Plane (2007), on the CIA, and Operation Snakebite (2009), about the war in Helmand, Afghanistan.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books UK / Viking
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 126mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 278g
• ISBN-13: 9780141033983
• ISBN-10: 0141033983
• Artikelnr.: 43782313

Rezensionen

Revelatory, deeply informed, subtle Financial Times