Hack Attack: The full story of the phone hacking scandal

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Random House, Jul 31, 2014 - Business & Economics - 512 pages

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING TRUE STORY BEHIND ITV’S THE HACK**

WITH EXPLOSIVE NEW EVIDENCE, THIS IS THE UPDATED EDITION OF THE BOOK THAT EXPOSED THE PHONE HACKING SCANDAL

Crime, conspiracy, abuse of power – this is the inside story of the scandal that blew the lid off Rupert Murdoch’s empire. Nearly twenty years since one of Murdoch’s reporters was caught eavesdropping on Buckingham Palace, the revelations keep coming. And Nick Davies is still digging out new evidence.

Hack Attack is the story of how Davies and a network of rebel lawyers, MPs and celebrities took on one of the most powerful men in the world and uncovered a web of crime and cover-up reaching from the Murdoch newsrooms to Scotland Yard and Downing Street. It was a scandal that shocked the British elite. And it’s not over yet.

'A colossal service to Britain's democracy' Financial Times

'As exciting as a thriller but far more important' Daily Telegraph

'A masterly summary of the hacking affair, as well as the ingenuity and persistence that lead to great journalism' Observer

 

Contents

Whos
Authors Note
Crime and Concealment
February 2008 to July 2009
Inside the News of the World
July 2009 to 14 July 2009
Crime in Fleet Street
July 2009 to November 2009
The biggest deal in the world
December 2010 to 28 June 2011
The last ditch
Truth
June 2011 to 19 July 2011
Exposed
Final reckoning
Epilogue

Secrets and lies
The Power Game
A wedding in the country
November 2009 to March 2010
The mogul and his governments
March 2010 to 15 December 2010
The Next Chapter
Appendix
List of Illustrations
Index
Copyright

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About the author (2014)

Nick Davies writes investigative stories for the Guardian, and has been named Journalist of the Year, Reporter of the Year and Feature Writer of the Year in British press awards. Between July 2009 and July 2011, he wrote more than a hundred stories about crime in Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World. He has written six books including White Lies and Dark Heart, and the bestselling Flat Earth News, exposing falsehood and propaganda in news media. Hack Attack is his latest book.

He has three children and lives in Sussex.