Gellman Barton Boeken

A remarkable, authentic and chilling expose of a global conspiracy that reads like a first-rate conspiracy thriller: a book of gripping, compulsive and disturbing impact' William Boyd Dark Mirror is the ultimate inside account of the vast, global surveillance network that now pervades all our lives. Barton Gellman's informant called himself 'Verax' - the truth-teller. It was only later that Verax unmasked himself as Edward Snowden. But Gellman's primary role in bringing Snowden's revelations to light, for which he shared the Pulitzer prize, is only the beginning of this gripping real-life spy story. Snowden unlocked the door: here Gellman describes what he found on the other side over the course of a years-long journey of investigation. It is also the story of his own escalating battle against unknown digital adversaries after he discovered his own name on a file in the leaked document trove and realised that he himself was under attack. Through a gripping narrative of paranoia, clandestine operations and jaw-dropping revelations, Dark Mirror delineates in full for the first time the hidden superstructure that connects government espionage with Silicon Valley. Who is spying on us and why? Here are the answers.

"Edward Snowden chose three journalists to tell the stories in his Top Secret trove of NSA documents: Barton Gellman of The Washington Post, Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian and filmmaker Laura Poitras, all of whom would share the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Poitras went on to direct the Oscar-winning Citizenfour. Greenwald wrote an instant memoir and cast himself as a pugilist on Snowden's behalf. Gellman took his own path. Snowden and his documents were the beginning, not the end, of a story he had prepared his whole life to tell. More than 20 years as a top investigative journalist armed him with deep sources in national security and high technology. New sources reached out from government and industry, making contact on the same kinds of secret, anonymous channels that Snowden had used. Gellman's reporting unlocked new puzzles in the NSA archive. And as Snowden's revelations faded somewhat from the public consciousness, the machinations he exposed continue still, with many policies unaltered despite societal outrage. Dark Mirror is a true-life spy tale that touches us all, told with authority and an inside view of extraordinary events. Within it is a chilling personal account of the obstacles facing the author, beginning with Gellman's discovery of his own name in Snowden's NSA document trove. Google notifies him that a foreign government is trying to compromise his account. A trusted technical adviser finds anomalies on his laptop. Sophisticated impostors approach Gellman with counterfeit documents, attempting to divert or discredit his work. Throughout Dark Mirror, the author wages an escalating battle against unknown digital adversaries who force him to mimic their tradecraft in self-defense. With the vivid and insightful style that marked Gellman's bestselling Angler, Dark Mirror is an inside account of the surveillance-industrial revolution and its discontents, fighting back against state and corporate intrusions into our most private spheres. Along the way, and with the benefit of hindsight, it tells the full story of a government leak unrivaled in drama since All the President's Men"-- Provided by publisher

»Verax« – unter diesem Namen kontaktierte ein geheimnisvoller Informant Barton Gellman. Der Journalist konnte nicht ahnen, dass sich dahinter Edward Snowden verbarg – und der größte Überwachungsskandal aller Zeiten. Jetzt legt der dreifache Pulitzer-Preisträger die definitive Gesamtdarstellung der globalen Überwachung vor. »Der dunkle Spiegel« ist alles zusammen: Spionage-Thriller, Insider-Bericht, investigative Reportage – und ein einzigartiges Zeugnis der unersetzlichen Rolle des Journalismus. Wie in einem Krimi erzählt Gellman von Snowdens Leak bis zum heutigen Überwachungskapitalismus des Silicon Valley die ganze Geschichte. Gegen den Widerstand von Geheimdiensten der ganzen Welt gelingt es ihm, die Puzzleteile zusammenzusetzen. Als sein Rechner vor seinen eigenen Augen gehackt wird, ist ihm klar: Hier sind Mächte am Werk, die kaum zu kontrollieren sind. Doch wer spioniert uns aus und warum? Sein Buch ist die Antwort auf diese Fragen.