Spooks

"e;Probably the most eye-opening and engrossing expose to date of the bizarre 'power games' played by multinational corporations and tycoons."e; -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 "e;Mission Impossible"e; 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 "e;Five I's"e; "e;The Friendly Ghost"e; and Nixon's secret account in the offshore Castle Bank & Trust"e;One of the best non-fiction books of the year, a monument of fourth-level research and fact-searching."e; Los Angeles Times"e;This book will curl your hair with its revelations and the names it names. A landmark book in its field of investigative reporting."e; John Barkham Reviews"e;Hougan is a superb storyteller and the pages teem with unforgettable characters. Admirable."e; The Washington Post"e;Hougan is exhilarating on the mystique of spooks."e; The New York Review of Book