Trading Secrets: Spies and Intelligence in an Age of Terror - Couverture rigide

Huband, Mark

 
9781848858435: Trading Secrets: Spies and Intelligence in an Age of Terror

Synopsis

How have the intelligence services been forced to adapt to try and combat the threat of terrorism? In this book, the author takes us inside the shadowy world of intelligence-gathering. It explores how the role and purpose of 'intelligence' has evolved from its origins in nineteenth-century Ireland to today's fight against terrorism.

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À propos de l?auteur

Mark Huband is a leading authority on intelligence and security issues and an award-winning former journalist, who held the positions of Africa correspondent for the Guardian and the Observer, Cairo correspondent and later Security correspondent for the Financial Times. He has written on subjects ranging from the civil war in Liberia to the emergence of political Islam and today is the head of a global research firm.

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