Hack Attack
The full story of the phone hacking scandal
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Publisher Description
**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING TRUE STORY BEHIND ITV’S THE HACK**
WITH EXPLOSIVE NEW EVIDENCE, THIS IS THE UPDATED EDITION OF THE BOOK THAT EXPOSED THE PHONE HACKING SCANDAL
Crime, conspiracy, abuse of power – this is the inside story of the scandal that blew the lid off Rupert Murdoch’s empire. Nearly twenty years since one of Murdoch’s reporters was caught eavesdropping on Buckingham Palace, the revelations keep coming. And Nick Davies is still digging out new evidence.
Hack Attack is the story of how Davies and a network of rebel lawyers, MPs and celebrities took on one of the most powerful men in the world and uncovered a web of crime and cover-up reaching from the Murdoch newsrooms to Scotland Yard and Downing Street. It was a scandal that shocked the British elite. And it’s not over yet.
'A colossal service to Britain's democracy' Financial Times
'As exciting as a thriller but far more important' Daily Telegraph
'A masterly summary of the hacking affair, as well as the ingenuity and persistence that lead to great journalism' Observer
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The reporter who broke Britain's phone-hacking scandal probes the media industry's corrupt nexus of power and propaganda in this searing expos . Guardian journalist Davies (Flat Earth News) recounts his investigation of the Rupert Murdoch tabloid News of the World and the illegal "dark arts" including hacking into the voice mail of celebrities, politicians, and ordinary crime victims and bribing police officers for information that it used to unearth salacious scandal stories. His narrative, studded with new revelations about Fleet Street's spying techniques, flows like a breathless thriller. Helped by secret sources with codenames like "Lola" and "Jingle," he struggles to tease out information, and is obstructed by the stonewalling News, by Scotland Yard officials with chummy relationships with the News who withheld explosive evidence of its misconduct, and by other media organizations that dismissed and attacked his reporting. Daviese paints a lurid, gossipy picture of Fleet Street, especially Murdoch's newspapers, whose rabid pursuit of sex and dirt, he argues, serves not just to sell papers but also to smear opponents and sway politics in favor of Murdoch's business interests. Davies's vision of an Orwellian media tyranny goes over the top he likens the Murdoch regime to Animal Farm's pigs-turned-oppressors but this is investigative journalism at its most riveting and provocative. Photos.
Customer Reviews
Simply brilliant on all levels
Outstanding book. Simply a must read for anyone interested in the survival of the democratic process.
The depth of the research and comprehensive articulation of the facts into the book’s narrative is a complement to the author’s diligence and intelligence.
Essential reading
At times it reads like a thriller and this book is essential reading for anyone who wants to know who really runs things and how they enforce their power.