Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy, Eamon Javers
Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy, Eamon Javers
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Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy
The Secret World of Corporate Espionage

Author: Eamon Javers

Narrator: Raymond Scully

Unabridged: 9 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/14/2011

Synopsis

“Eamon Javers has produced a remarkable book about the secret world of business warfare—a world filled with corporate spies and covert ops and skullduggery… An important book that has the added pleasure of reading like a spy novel.” —David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z Award-winning reporter Eamon Javers’s Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy is a penetrating work of investigative and historical journalism about the evolution of corporate espionage, exploring the dangerous and combustible power spies hold over international business. From the birth of the Pinkertons to Howard Hughes, from presidents to Cold War spies, Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy is, like Legacy of Ashes and Blackwater, a first rate political thriller that also just happens to be true.

About Eamon Javers

A Washington reporter for CNBC, Eamon Javers was previously a correspondent for Politico and a Washington correspondent for BusinessWeek. The recipient of an award from the Medill School of Journalism for his investigative reporting, Javers has appeared on CNN, FOX News, MSNBC, and the BBC. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife and two children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Will

Privatization of security and intelligence capabilities is “extending the espionage culture of the cold war into the global economy.” A phrase kept running through my head while reading while reading Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy, “Well, what would you expect?” We have privatized a lot of dodgy milita......more

Goodreads review by ☘Misericordia☘

A compulsively readable account of early history of corpintel. And else.......more

Goodreads review by Ms.pegasus

The title of this book intentionally evokes John Le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Javers' startling revelation is that the world of corporate espionage is peopled by former CIA, FBI, Secret Service, and military intelligence operatives. They apply their specialized training in surveillance,......more

Goodreads review by Lance

Would it shock you to know that there are private-for profit spy agencies? Nah, me neither. After all, lately we've outsourced killing and torture, so why not snooping? And would it surprise you that most of these spies-for-hire graduated from the military or various three-letter agencies, took thei......more

Goodreads review by Ryan

Sometimes you wish a book had a different author. I actually don't want to jump on Javers too much. The subject matter is interesting. But at the end of the day, they are just anecdotes and history sewn together without much cohesion or reason. There isn't much style or punch there either. And the w......more

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