Description: Further DetailsTitle: SpooksCondition: NewDescription: “Probably the most eye-opening and engrossing exposé to date of the bizarre ‘power games’ played by multinational corporations and tycoons.” —Publishers Weekly A classic of investigative reporting, Spooks is a treasure trove of who-shot-who research on the metastasis of the US intelligence community, whose practices and personnel have engulfed the larger society. Teeming with tales of wiremen, hitmen, and mobsters; crooked politicians and corrupt cops going about their business of regime-change, union-busting, wiretapping, money laundering, and industrial espionage, read about: • Richard Nixon’s “Mission Impossible” war on Aristotle Onassis • Not-so-deep-fake porno films starring the CIA’s enemies • The Robert Vesco heist, targeting billions in numbered Swiss accounts • Robert Maheu and the kidnapping of billionaire Howard Hughes • The murder-for-hire of a Columbia University professor • Bobby Kennedy’s archipelago of private intelligence agencies—Intertel and the “Five I’s” • “The Friendly Ghost” and Nixon’s secret account in the offshore Castle Bank & Trust “One of the best non-fiction books of the year, a monument of fourth-level research and fact-searching.” —Los Angeles Times“This book will curl your hair with its revelations and the names it names. A landmark book in its field of investigative reporting.” —John Barkham Reviews “Hougan is a superb storyteller and the pages teem with unforgettable characters. Admirable.” —The Washington Post “Hougan is exhilarating on the mystique of spooks.” —The New York Review of BookAuthor: Jim HouganCountry/Region of Manufacture: USEAN: 9781504075299Format: PaperbackGenre: HistoryISBN: 9781504075299Item Height: 228mmItem Length: 152mmLanguage: EnglishPublisher: Open Road MediaRelease Date: 06/30/2022Subtitle: The Haunting of America—The Private Use of Secret AgentsTopic: Military History, Law & PoliticsRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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EAN: 9781504075299
ISBN: 9781504075299
Item Height: 228mm
Publication Name: Spooks
Release Date: 06/30/2022
Release Year: 2022
Subtitle: The Haunting of America—The Private Use of Secret Agents
Title: Spooks
Book Title: Spooks : the Haunting of America--The Private Use of Secret Agents
Number of Pages: 426 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
Publication Year: 2022
Topic: Military / Special Forces, Corruption & Misconduct, Security (National & International)
Genre: Political Science, History
Author: Jim Hougan
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
