\n\nToday’s global economy has a dark underbelly. Using cutting-edge technology and age-old techniques of deceit and manipulation, corporate spies are the hidden puppeteers of globalized business. They control markets, determine prices, influence corporate decisions, and manage the flow of data and information of some of the world’s biggest conglomerates. In an age when international conflicts are as likely to be corporation versus corporation as they are to be nation versus nation, the actions of these remarkably efficient covert operatives raise a host of crucial–and frightening–moral and legal questions.\n\nIn his gripping, alarming exposE, Eamon Javers recounts the sordid history of this hidden world–from Allan Pinkerton, the nation’s first \