Permanent Record

✍ Scribed by Edward Snowden

• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 263
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Sunday Times top ten bestseller. Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down. In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it. Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online – a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet’s conscience. Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age. 'A riveting account . . . Reads like a literary thriller' - New York Times

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Dedication
Preface
Part One
1. Looking Through the Window
2. The Invisible Wall
3. Beltway Boy
4. American Online
5. Hacking
6. Incomplete
7. 9/11
8. 9/12
9. X-Rays
10. Cleared and in Love
Part Two
11. The System
12. Homo contractus
13. Indoc
14. The Count of the Hill
15. Geneva
16. Tokyo
17. Home on the Cloud
18. On the Couch
Part Three
19. The Tunnel
20. Heartbeat
21. Whistleblowing
22. Fourth Estate
23. Read, Write, Execute
24. Encrypt
25. The Boy
26. Hong Kong
27. Moscow
28. From the Diaries of Lindsay Mills
29. Love and Exile
Notes
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Copyright