{"product_id":"the-grey-men-by-ralph-hope-9781786079619","title":"The Grey Men","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFascinating and powerful.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat do you do with a hundred thousand idle spies?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy 1990 the Berlin Wall had fallen, and the East German state security service folded. For forty years, they had amassed more than a billion pages in manila files detailing the lives of their citizens. Almost a hundred thousand Stasi employees, many of them experienced officers with access to highly personal information, found themselves unemployed overnight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of what they did next.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFormer FBI agent Ralph Hope uses present-day sources and access to Stasi records to track and expose ex-officers working everywhere from the Russian energy sector to the police and even the government department tasked with prosecuting Stasi crimes. He examines why the key players have never been called to account and, in doing so, asks if we have really learned from the past at all. He highlights a man who continued to fight the Stasi for thirty years after the Wall fell and reveals a truth that many today don’t want spoken.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Grey Men\u003c\/em\u003e comes as an urgent warning from the past at a time when governments the world over are building an unprecedented network of surveillance over their citizens. Ultimately, this is a book about the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47363114074348,"sku":"9781786079619","price":26.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/25411023482823.jpg?v=1772914404","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-grey-men-by-ralph-hope-9781786079619","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}