Jim Hougan

"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 Book

Open Road Media

Spooks: The Haunting of America—The Private Use of Secret Agents

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