
Hack Attack: How the truth caught up with Rupert Murdoch
Nick Davies
**SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**
Read the definitive inside story of the News International Phone Hacking scandal, told by the man who exposed it.
At first, it seemed like a small story. The royal correspondent of the News of the World was caught listening in on Buckingham Palace voicemails. He was quietly sent to prison and the case was closed.
But Nick Davies felt sure there was a lot more going on.
And he was right.
Davies and a network of rebel lawyers, MPs and celebrities took on Rupert Murdoch, one of the most powerful men in the world, and in bringing him down they uncovered a world of crime and cover-up reaching from the newsroom to Scotland Yard and to Downing Street.
This is the story of a network of corruption rooted deep within our society, and how it was dragged into the light.
'A masterly summary of the hacking affair, as well as the ingenuity and persistence that lead to great journalism' Observer
'This has all the elements - lying, corruption, blackmail - at the highest levels of government by the biggest newspaper in London' George Clooney
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Reviews for Hack Attack: How the truth caught up with Rupert Murdoch
Sir Harold Evans
First in the Guardian and now in this book, the reporting of Nick Davies has revealed the insidious abuse of power—and the public trust—by the Murdoch press from the top down. The British hacking scandal is the ultimate expression of Murdoch-culture run amok: corruption in the Fourth Estate as dangerous to democracy as the worst excesses of heads of state.
Carl Bernstein
This has all the elements – lying, corruption, blackmail – at the highest levels of government by the biggest newspaper in London. And the fact that it’s true is the best part. Nick is a brave and stubborn reporter and we consider it an honor to put his book to film.
George Clooney (who is set to direct the film of the book)
Nick Davies is Britain’s greatest investigative journalist... This book is as exciting as a thriller but far more important... should be compulsory reading in journalism schools and must be read by anyone who wishes to understand how British politics actually works.
Peter Oborne
Telegraph
Gripping …the best account we have of the phone-hacking scandal and the attendant police corruption and cover-ups...A masterly summary of the hacking affair, as well as the ingenuity and persistence that lead to great journalism.
Henry Porter
Observer
His set pieces...are breathtaking... Hack Attack captures a picture of bullying and nepotism that should be absent from a democratic society
Martin Hickman
The Independent
What is revealed here, in painful, careful detail, is a journalism that held power in contempt…Nick Davies has done a colossal service to Britain’s democracy…Hack Attack is the book of a very bold reporter about a passage of arms that he won, to our great benefit.
John Lloyd
Financial Times
Davies’ account of how Murdoch and his dysfunctional lieutenants ensnared, enslaved, and frightened generations of politicians is blistering.
Will Gore
Independent on Sunday
THE book to drizzle your Piz Buin on.
Hugh Grant
[Davies] tells a brilliant story [and] takes us through the years of sniffing and delving with energy, determination and resilience
Peter Preston
Observer