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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:
ā¢ Richard Nixonās āMission Impossibleā war on Aristotle Onassis
ā¢ Not-so-deep-fake porno films starring the CIAās enemies
ā¢ The Robert Vesco heist, targeting billions in numbered Swiss accounts
ā¢ Robert Maheu and the kidnapping of billionaire Howard Hughes
ā¢ The murder-for-hire of a Columbia University professor
ā¢ Bobby Kennedyās archipelago of private intelligence agenciesāIntertel and the āFive Iāsā
ā¢ āThe Friendly Ghostā and Nixonās secret account in the offshore Castle Bank & Trust
āOne of the best non-fiction books of the year, a monument of fourth-level research and fact-searching.ā āLos Angeles Times
āThis book will curl your hair with its revelations and the names it names. A landmark book in its field of investigative reporting.ā āJohn Barkham Reviews
āHougan is a superb storyteller and the pages teem with unforgettable characters. Admirable.ā āThe Washington Post
āHougan is exhilarating on the mystique of spooks.ā āThe New York Review of Book
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