Annie Jacobsen was a contributing editor at the Los Angeles Times Magazine and is the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51. A graduate of Princeton University, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.
Praise for Operation Paperclip "The most in depth account yet of
the lives of Paperclip recruits and their American counterparts....
Jacobsen deftly untangles the myriad German and American agencies
and personnel involved...more gripping and skillfully rendered are
the stories of American and British officials who scoured defeated
Germany for Nazi scientists and their research."--New York Times
Book Review
Praise for Phenomena One of The Washington Post's most anticipated
books of 2017 One of USA Today's New and Noteworthy Picks! "With
Phenomena, Annie Jacobsen has once again produced an utterly
absorbing and brilliantly reported chronicle that truly breaks new
ground. This is a boundary-breaking story of mental phenomena-extra
sensory perception techniques-that is truly a pleasure to read. A
mind-bending triumph!"--Alex Kershaw, bestselling author of The
Liberator and Avenue of Spies
Praise for The Pentagon's Brain Pulitzer Prize Finalist in History
One of The Washington Post's Notable Nonfiction Books of 2015 One
of The Boston Globe's Best Books of 2015 One of Amazon's Top 100
Books of 2015 "A brilliantly researched account of a small but
powerful secret government agency whose military research
profoundly affects world affairs."--The Pulitzer Prize
Committee
"A behind-the-scenes look at the most shadowy corners of the
American intelligence community...Well-sourced and well-paced, this
book is full of surprises."--Kirkus
"A fascinating and unsettling portrait of the secretive U.S.
government agency....Jacobsen walks a fine line in telling the
story of the agency and its innovations without coming across as a
cheerleader or a critic, or letting the narrative devolve into a
salacious tell-all. Jacobsen's ability to objectively tell the
story of DARPA, not to mention its murky past, is truly remarkable,
making for a terrifically well-crafted treatise on the agency most
Americans know next to nothing about."--Publishers Weekly (starred
review)
"Annie Jacobsen has written an entertaining narrative of the many
salaried people in our government who have supported the
exploration of psychic phenomena....Much of the information
presented is already known, but Jacobsen has accomplished the
gargantuan feat of bulldozing it all into one place. She has a keen
eye for amusing anecdotes, and writes them up with convincing
detail. More than that, Jacobsen has arranged her story in a kind
of nonfiction picaresque novel."--Dick Teresi, New York Times Book
Review
"Annie Jacobsen is back with a new tome that should entice anyone
who doesn't mind thinking outside the box; or as referenced in her
book, as if there is no box.... A well researched and fascinating
tale.... It's everything you could possibly want"--Simon Constable,
Forbes
"As fast paced as a thriller." --Fred Burton, Stratfor Talks' Pen
and Sword Podcast
"Filled with the intrigue and high stakes of a spy novel,
Jacobsen's history of DARPA is as much a fascinating testament to
human ingenuity as it is a paean to endless industrial warfare and
the bureaucracy of the military-industrial complex."--Kirkus
"Having already demonstrated her remarkable aptitude for unearthing
government secrets in books like Area 51 (2011) and The Pentagon's
Brain (2015), Jacobsen pulls back the curtain on the history of
covert warfare and state sanctioned assassinations from WWII to the
present...Jacobsen's work revealing a poorly understood but
essential slice of warfare history belongs in every library
collection."--Booklist
"In SURPRISE, VANISH, KILL, Annie Jacobsen takes us inside the
darkest and most morally ambiguous corner of our government, where
politicians ask brave men and women to kill-up close and
personal-on America's behalf. She offers, in cinematic detail, the
real story of recent geopolitical history, the plots and
assassinations that in some instances presidents and diplomats have
denied for years, including the CIA's biggest successes and its
biggest fiascos."--Garrett M. Graff, author of Raven Rock: The
Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself--While
the Rest of Us Die
"Jacobsen here presents a tour de force exploring the CIA's
paramilitary activities...this excellent work feels like uncovering
the tip of the iceberg. VERDICT: Highly recommended for those
seeking a better understanding of American foreign policy in
action."--Jacob Sherman, Library Journal
"Jacobsen offers a definitive history of the clandestine agency....
She explores the implications of DARPA work on technology that will
not be widely known to the public for generations but will
certainly impact national security and concepts of war."--Vanessa
Bush, Booklist (starred review)
"Richly researched.... Jacobsen shows that, in the face of
inexplicable events, even 'the most pragmatic, commonsense thinkers
found themselves uncertain.'"--The New Yorker
"With Annie Jacobsen's OPERATION PAPERCLIP for the first time the
enormity of the effort has been laid bare. The result is a book
that is at once chilling and riveting, and one that raises
substantial and difficult questions about national honor and
security...This book is a remarkable achievement of investigative
reporting and historical writing."--Boston Globe
Praise for Surprise, Kill, Vanish
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