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Undercover: The True Story of Britain’s Secret Police

Rob Evans

Undercover: The True Story of Britain’s Secret Police, by Paul Lewis and Rob Evans, is the breathtaking exposé of a top-secret campaign of surveillance against British citizens, now fully updated for paperback.

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Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781783350346
Date Published
06.03.2014
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Summary

THEY STEAL IDENTITIES.
THEY BREAK THE LAW.
THEY SLEEP WITH THE ENEMY.
THEY ARE THE UNDERCOVER POLICE.

This is the breathtaking story of forty years of state espionage revealed by award-winning journalists Rob Evans and Paul Lewis.

Critic Reviews

'A sensation.'

Sunday Times
Critic Reviews

'Utterly absorbing.'

The Times
Critic Reviews

'Genuinely shocking ... Person after person who was taken in, deceived, gulled, who knew the officers for years - who thought of them as best friends, or lovers, or life partners, or the father of their children, had no inkling that they were part of an elaborate state-sponsored spy-ring that intruded on the most intimate parts of their lives.

Carole Cadwalladr, Observer
Critic Reviews

'Were these stories not real, they would read like an airport thriller... The work of these authors is one of the best arguments in favour of a free press you'll ever read.'

Alan White, New Statesman
RobEvans

Rob Evans, a Guardian reporter since 1999, is the recipient won awards for exposing corruption such as BAE’s corrupt payments and for his freedom of information work. He is the author of Gassed: British Chemical Warfare Experiments on Humans at Porton Down, a book revealing British chemical warfare experiments on soldiers, and a co-author of Undercover: The True Story of…

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