The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man

Vintage

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UPC:
9780804173520
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2/7/2014
Release Date:
2/7/2014
Author:
Luke Harding
Language:
english
Edition:
F First Paperback Edition Used
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Now a major motion picture, directed by Oliver Stone andstarring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

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 Snowdens astonishing storyfrom 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 storytouching on everything from concerns about domestic spying to the complicity of the tech sectorwhile also placing us in the room with Edward Snowden himself. The result is a gripping insider narrativeand a necessary and timely account of what is at stake for all of us in the new digital age.