Everlasting Report

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Edward Snowden, the person who risked all the things to reveal the US authorities’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the primary time the story of his life, together with how he helped to construct that system and what motivated him to attempt to carry it down.

In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence institution and revealed that the USA authorities was secretly pursuing the means to gather each single telephone name, textual content message, and e-mail. The outcome can be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the power to pry into the non-public lives of each particular person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to construct this method and why he was moved to reveal it.

Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his maturity, Everlasting Report is the extraordinary account of a vivid younger man who grew up on-line—a person who grew to become a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Web’s conscience. Written with wit, grace, ardour, and an unflinching candor, Everlasting Report is a vital memoir of our digital age and destined to be a traditional.