Enemies

For decades the FBI has been seen as the ultimate crime-fighting force. In Enemies, Tim Weiner reveals its true role: as America's secret police. He shows how, since its creation over a century ago, the Bureau has been wielded by government as a weapon against its own citizens, using illegal surveillance, blackmail, burglary, propaganda and cover ups to fight enemies both real and imagined, and becoming, under J. Edgar Hoover, a law unto itself. Drawing on shocking, never-before-seen FBI files, this is the untold story of America's real intelligence service. 'Outstanding . . . powerful . . . a definitive history of the bureau.' Sunday Times 'A history that moves at the pace of a James Ellroy novel. But Weiner's truth is wilder even than Ellroy's fiction.' Spectator 'Profoundly disturbing . . . Weiner tells a dark tale with acerbic authority.' The Times 'An outstanding piece of work, even-handed, exhaustively researched, smoothly written and thematically timely.' The New York Times 'Truly impressive . . . Enemies could have been put together only by a journalist of Weiner's stature.' Sunday Telegraph 'Terrifically entertaining.' Boston Globe