Description
| Product ID: | 9780061697210 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy |
| Subtitle: | The Secret World of Corporate Espionage |
| Authors: | Author: Eamon Javers |
| Page Count: | 320 |
| Subjects: | Corporate crime / white-collar crime, Corporate crime, Business strategy, International business, Business strategy, International business |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Explores the dangerous and combustible power spies hold over international business. This title presents the story of Allan Pinkerton, the nation's true private eye, and extends through the annals of a rich history that includes tycoons and playboys, presidents and FBI operatives, CEOs and accountants, Cold War veterans and military personnel. “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. |
| Imprint Name: | Harper Business |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-03-01 |