Spooked - Espionage in Corporate America (Hardcover)

This work is an account of intrigue and espionage in the offices and boardrooms of today's corporations. Imagine your main business competitor building a world-class, satellite-equipped "war room" to secretly scope out and monitor your progress developing international ventures. Incredible? Imagine your classified product prototype mysteriously landing on the market under a brand name belonging to your archrival. Astounding? This isn't the story line from the latest John le Carr novel; this is modern-day corporate America - and it's full of secret agents and operatives, stealing and selling your intellectual property for profit. Peopled by characters displaced from now defunct post-Cold War agencies, "Spooked" exposes a tapestry of real-life corporate spying occurring within publicly traded companies such as Dow Chemical, Avery Dennison, 3M, Sony, Motorola, and dozens of others.;Adam Penenberg, top investigative journalist for Forbes, and Marc Barry, founder of a Manhattan-based corporate-intelligence agency, uncover and describe in detail some of the greatest corporate-espionage capers of all time. "Spooked" unravels the truth and hypocrisy behind the multi-billion-dollar corporate-intelligence industry.

General

Imprint:	Perseus Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2001
Authors:	Adam Penenberg • Marc Barry
Dimensions:	241 x 159mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-0-7382-0271-6
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > Espionage & secret services Promotions
LSN:	0-7382-0271-1
Barcode:	9780738202716

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