Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy

“Eamon Javers has produced a remarkable book about the secret world of business warfare—a world filled with corporate spies and covert ops and skullduggery… An important book that has the added pleasure of reading like a spy novel.” —David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z

Award-winning reporter Eamon Javers’s Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy is a penetrating work of investigative and historical journalism about the evolution of corporate espionage, exploring the dangerous and combustible power spies hold over international business. From the birth of the Pinkertons to Howard Hughes, from presidents to Cold War spies, Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy is, like Legacy of Ashes and Blackwater, a first rate political thriller that also just happens to be true.

Javers uncovers a shadow economy of spies for hire and corporate intrigue, revealing a hidden world where information is a weapon:

• Spies for Hire: Go inside a secret industry of ex-CIA, MI5, and even KGB operatives who sell their skills to the highest corporate bidder, from Russian oligarchs to Wall Street titans.
• Covert Operations: Follow the shocking "false-flag" recruitment of an innocent accountant and discover how corporate spies execute real-world missions to steal multi-million dollar secrets.
• A Secret History: Uncover the origins of business warfare, from Allan Pinkerton’s nineteenth-century detective agency to the private intelligence network of the reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes.
• High-Stakes Investigations: Witness a penetrating work of true-story journalism that reads like a political thriller, exposing the combustible power spies hold over international business.