Body of Secrets

A magnificent achievement and a compelling read for anyone interested in espionage. --The Baltimore Sun Extraordinary. . . . A galvanizing narrative brimming with heretofore undisclosed details. --The New York Times Book Review Crisply written and prodigiously researched, Body of Secrets . . . is the most detailed picture yet of the activities of the world's largest intelligence-gathering operation. --The Washington Post Book World Part history, part expose, the book offers an 'anatomy' of the NSA, seeking to strip away the myth surrounding it. . . . [An] authoritative and engaging book. -The Wall Street Journal Body of Secrets is one fascinating book...chock-full of juicy stuff.... Interesting to read, well-written and scrupulously documented. -Salon An engaging and informed history.... Bamford weaves a narrative about the NSA that includes...many heretofore undisclosed tidbits of information. -The Nation James Bamford, who wrote one of the really good books about American intelligence twenty years ago...has now done it again.... Body of Secrets has something interesting and important to add to many episodes of cold war history...[and] has much to say about recent events. -The New York Review of Books At times surprising, often quite troubling but always fascinating.... Writing with a flair and clarity that rivals those of the best spy novelists, Bamford has created a masterpiece of investigative reporting. -Publishers Weekly (starred review) Body of Secrets adds fresh material about the world's nosiest and most secret body.... Will fascinate anyone interested in the shadow war. -The Economist