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The New Spymasters: Inside Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror
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NUMBER ONE EVENING STANDARD BESTSELLERBOOK OF THE YEAR – DAILY TELEGRAPH’Exceptional. A blueprint for productive, sophisticated espionage in the age of Islamist terror’ Daily TelegraphSpying 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.In The New Spymasters, the first real account of how modern espionage works, we follow riveting stories of dramatic missions and the larger-than-life characters who undertook them. These were moments when success – and ultimately life or death – depended on whether the right person was in the right place… at exactly the right time.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.278 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.3 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Pages | 384 |
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| Year Published | 2016-2-4 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0141033983 |
| About The Author | 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. |
Revelatory, deeply informed, subtle |
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| Other text | A manual of modern espionage. Farewell George Smiley. The targets are new, the methods different, the technology hyper. Only the purpose remains – forewarning |
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