Official Secrets

Two fearless reporters. An unlikely source on the run for their life. A rogue government conspiracy that will do anything to stop them. Tom Novak, cocky star reporter for The Republic, has never played by the rules. He found fame with a story using leaked classified documents, but he hasn't filed a story in six months, the magazine is nearly bankrupt, and now the U.S. government wants to charge him with espionage. In a bid to save the magazine, he is paired with Stella Mitchell, Republic's fearless new Foreign Affairs correspondent from England. And it doesn't take long for sparks to fly, and conflict to ignite. They're sent to report on a shocking act of violence in London that brings the British government to its knees. But telling the truth can be deadly. So when Stella finds a link to the suspicious death of a GCHQ agent, the evidence points to an audacious cover-up with global implications. As ghosts from Mitchell's tabloid past resurface, and Novak confronts a terrible secret about the story that made his name, the pair find themselves caught up in an international conspiracy, and on the run for their lives. If you like globetrotting action, never-see-it-coming plot twists, and razor-sharp dialogue, you'll love Novak and Mitchell. Buy Official Secrets today and discover an utterly fresh and addictive new voice in thriller writing, that will keep you gripped until its final, devastating twists. Reviews: 'Truly spectacular. One of the best thrillers I have read in a long time.' Amazon review 'You don't want to stop reading.' Amazon review 'Incredible...unputdownable...Can't wait for the next instalments.' Amazon review

"Tells the story of a young British secret service officer, Katharine Gun, and her courageous decision to expose an illegal US-UK operation -- a covert plot to influence the UN vote that would have authorized the Iraq invasion"--P. [4] of cover.

Richard Breitman's Official Secrets is an important work based on newly declassified archives. As defeat loomed over the Third Reich in 1945, its officials tried to destroy the physical and documentary evidence about the Nazis' monstrous crimes, about their murder of millions. Great Britain already had some of the evidence, however, for its intelligence services had for years been intercepting, decoding, and analyzing German police radio messages and SS ones, too. Yet these important papers were sealed away as "Most Secret," "Never to Be Removed from This Office"-and they have only now reappeared. Integrating this new evidence with other sources, Richard Breitman reconsiders how Germany's leaders brought about the Holocaust-and when-and reassesses Britain's and America's suppression of information about the Nazi killings. His absorbing account of the tensions between the two powers and the consequences of keeping this information secret for so long shows us the danger of continued government secrecy, which serves none of us well, and the failure to punish many known war criminals.

Remarkable story of escape aids, their invention, production, and the sequel.

There is a hidden country within the United States. It was formed from the astonishing number of secrets held by the government and the growing ranks of secret-keepers given charge over them. The government secrecy industry speaks in a private language of codes and acronyms, and follows an arcane set of rules and customs designed to perpetuate itself, repel penetration, and deflect oversight. It justifies itself with the assertion that the American values worth preserving are often best sustained by subterfuge and deception. Deep State, written by two of the country's most respected national security journalists, disassembles the secrecy apparatus of the United States and examines real-world trends that ought to trouble everyone from the most aggressive hawk to the fiercest civil libertarian. The book: - Provides the fullest account to date of the National Security Agency’s controversial surveillance program first spun up in the dark days after 9/11. - Examines President Obama's attempt to reconcile his instincts as a liberal with the realities of executive power, and his use of the state secrets doctrine. - Exposes how the public’s ubiquitous access to information has been the secrecy industry's toughest opponent to date, and provides a full account of how WikiLeaks and other “sunlight” organizations are changing the government's approach to handling sensitive information, for better and worse. - Explains how the increased exposure of secrets affects everything from Congressional budgets to Area 51, from SEAL Team Six and Delta Force to the FBI, CIA, and NSA. - Assesses whether the formal and informal mechanisms put in place to protect citizens from abuses by the American deep state work, and how they might be reformed.

This book offers the first in-depth analysis of a pressing issue in the European Union: ensuring democratic oversight and fundamental rights in light of a growing official secrets architecture embedded in security policies.

"The Mirzayanov case is an immediate legal litmus test of emerging Russian democracy. He is an individual in the true tradition of Andrei Sakharov, a man persecuted under the former regime for telling the truth, but now, rightfully, universally honored."--Dan Ellsberg, author.