No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State

By Glenn Greenwald

Book Overview

A groundbreaking look at the NSA surveillance scandal, from the reporter who broke the story, Glenn Greenwald, star of Citizenfour, the Academy Award-winning documentary on Edward Snowden.

In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted channels. That source turned out to be the twenty-nine-year-old NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and his revelations about the agency's widespread, systemic overreach proved to be some of the most explosive and consequential news in recent history, triggering a fierce debate over national security and information privacy.

Now Greenwald fits all the pieces together, recounting his high-intensity eleven-day trip to Hong Kong, examining the broader implications of the surveillance detailed in his reporting for The Guardian, and revealing fresh information on the NSA's unprecedented abuse of power with documents from the Snowden archive. Fearless and incisive, No Place to Hide has already sparked outrage around the globe and been hailed by voices across the political spectrum as an essential contribution to our understanding of the U.S. surveillance state.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250062586
• ISBN13: 9781250062581
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Picador USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

No place to hide EXPOSED

This is real life detective story on the journalist who interviewed Snowden in NSA and the surveillance system of the 5 Eyes coalition. Are we in 1984 democracy? It is terrifying to know the ugly truth of Big Brother watching every bit of communication, democracy or not. In the name of national security, Patriot Act, government extend their long arm on any person, domestic or foreign. This book is an eye opening orientation to Snowden's Permanent Record