Christopher Booker, a Sunday Telegraph columnist – now sadly deceased – and Richard North, who worked for four years in Brussels and Strasbourg as a senior researcher, have won a unique reputation for their expertise on Britain’s relationship with the European Union. Their previous publications included The Mad Officials (1994) and The Castle of Lies (1996). But they regarded The Great Deception as the book they had been waiting to write for ten years.
Carefully researched ... Everyone claims that there has to be a great debate about the EU. But this solid book has gone unanswered. * Books of the Year * The authors perform a valuable service -- Brian Precious * Morning Star * The literature on European integration is dominated by an uncritical historicism that implies that the superseding of the nation-state in Europe is both inevitable and culturally desirable. A skeptical narrative has long been overdue. - The Historian, Vol. 67, No. 4 -- The Historian