About the Author

Greg Palast s writings have appeared in The Washington Post, Harper s, and The Nation. He s been a guest on Politically Incorrect, C-Span s Washington Journal, and does regular investigative reports for BBC Nightline. Winner of Salon.com s 2001 Politics Story of the Year, Greg Palast is a legend among his colleagues and his devoted readership worldwide. He divides his time between New York and London."

Reviews

Upsets all the right people. (Noam Chomsky) Courageous reporting. (Michael Moore) Gripping, provocative, inspiring. (John Perkins, the New York Times bestselling author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man) The type of investigative reporter you donAEt see anymoreua cross between Sam Spade and Sherlock Holmes. (Jim Hightower) I urge you: read PalastAEs latest book, Armed Madhouse. The story is like a spy thriller. (Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., on Air America Radio) A Truth Hound . . . . PalastAEs stories bite. TheyAEre so relevant they threaten to alter history. (Chicago Tribune) Palast, a tough-talking, fedora-wearing corporate fraud investigator turned intrepid journalist, has a habit for finding actual documents and then using them in edgy exposTs. (Los Angeles Times)"