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The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man
Vintage
February 2014
On Sale: February 17, 2014
352 pages
ISBN: 0804173524
EAN: 9780804173520
Kindle: B00I1ZKA56
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
IT BEGAN WITH A TANTALIZING, ANONYMOUS EMAIL: “I AM A SENIOR
MEMBER OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.”
What
followed was the most spectacular intelligence breach ever,
brought about by one extraordinary man. Edward Snowden was a
29-year-old computer genius working for the National
Security Agency when he shocked the world by exposing the
near-universal mass surveillance programs of the United
States government. His whistleblowing has shaken the leaders
of nations worldwide, and generated a passionate public
debate on the dangers of global monitoring and the threat to
individual privacy.
In a tour de force of
investigative journalism that reads like a spy novel,
award-winning Guardian reporter Luke Harding tells
Snowden’s astonishing story—from the day he left his
glamorous girlfriend in Honolulu carrying a hard drive full
of secrets, to the weeks of his secret-spilling in Hong
Kong, to his battle for asylum and his exile in Moscow. For
the first time, Harding brings together the many sources and
strands of the story—touching on everything from concerns
about domestic spying to the complicity of the tech
sector—while also placing us in the room with Edward Snowden
himself. The result is a gripping insider narrative—and a
necessary and timely account of what is at stake for all of
us in the new digital age.
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