Double Cross

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Double Cross is a first-person report that takes the reader into the unmapped twilight zone of big business and international intrigue, to meet the millionaire spy, Terry-Ann, the manly American lady who auctions information at a Bangkok pool-side, the agent who spied against himself by milking two clients in San Francisco, Kam 'Mr Fixit' Luang of Hongkong, the copycats, bug-pedlars, birds in the Australian bush, computer-crackers, digital agents, brain-hunters, diplomatic cookie-pushers and the undiplomatic German who claims that Prince Philip tipped him off.
It took Stephen Barlay seven years of manoeuvring, sometimes employing tactics he was not always proud of, to come face to face with shadows of increasing world-wide influence, to see the cloaks and the daggers in the drug industry, the passion-fashion and the tenders for multi-million projects; to visit the factory that produces the stereo-bra and the school for spies where 'sex is optional'; to witness the use of vast... Tovább

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Double Cross is a first-person report that takes the reader into the unmapped twilight zone of big business and international intrigue, to meet the millionaire spy, Terry-Ann, the manly American lady who auctions information at a Bangkok pool-side, the agent who spied against himself by milking two clients in San Francisco, Kam 'Mr Fixit' Luang of Hongkong, the copycats, bug-pedlars, birds in the Australian bush, computer-crackers, digital agents, brain-hunters, diplomatic cookie-pushers and the undiplomatic German who claims that Prince Philip tipped him off.
It took Stephen Barlay seven years of manoeuvring, sometimes employing tactics he was not always proud of, to come face to face with shadows of increasing world-wide influence, to see the cloaks and the daggers in the drug industry, the passion-fashion and the tenders for multi-million projects; to visit the factory that produces the stereo-bra and the school for spies where 'sex is optional'; to witness the use of vast slush-funds for bribery and the for the destruction of privacy;,^ listen , pillow-talk, observe boardroom deals and¦ double-deals, and watch how secrets afeT',^ extracted from advertisements, ^.dustbVr company annual reports, typewriter f|Jit and people. ^^S
This is the first book to venture^fe^r industrial espionage theories, secofrd-handj accounts and court records - and it eye-opener.
The gripping and amusing episoB^s^fad up to and reveal an intense confrontatiorf^'®^-/ among so-called Western allies. This'^i^'^i third world war, in which millions of jobSj and nations' prosperity are the final battles are fought out byi'^tir^eiP* industries, supranational corporations ^d'T governments. This is the cooUwar^'of.f economic espionage and organisetJLdouble^^' cross - and Double Cross is a docurtientaryl that reads like a thriller.
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