No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State [Paperback]

A groundbreaking look at the NSA surveillance scandal, from the reporter who broke the story, Glenn Greenwald, star ofCitizenfour, the Academy Award-winning documentary on Edward Snowden.

In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted channels. That source turned out to be the twenty-nine-year-old NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and his revelations about the agency's widespread, systemic overreach proved to be some of the most explosive and consequential news in recent history, triggering a fierce debate over national security and information privacy.

Now Greenwald fits all the pieces together, recounting his high-intensity eleven-day trip to Hong Kong, examining the broader implications of the surveillance detailed in his reporting forThe Guardian, and revealing fresh information on the NSA's unprecedented abuse of power with documents from the Snowden archive. Fearless and incisive,No Place to Hidehas already sparked outrage around the globe and been hailed by voices across the political spectrum as an essential contribution to our understanding of the U.S. surveillance state.

Glenn Greenwaldis the author of several bestsellers, includingHow Would a Patriot Act?andWith Liberty and Justice for Some.Acclaimed as one of the 25 most influential political commentators byThe Atlanticand one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers byForeign Policyfor 2013, Greenwald is a former constitutional law and civil rights attorney. He was a columnist forThe Guardianuntil October, 2013, and is now building a new media organization. He is a frequent guest on CNN, MSNBC and various other television and radio outlets. His NSA reporting in 2013 has won numerous awards, including the top investigative journalism award for the 2013 Online JournallÃz