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Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch (Record no. 5929)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780701187309
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 070.10
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Personal name Davies, Nick
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245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. United Kingdom;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Vintage Publishing;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 31 Jul 2014
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 352 Pages;
Other physical details Hardback
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. This is a Sunday Times Top 5 Bestseller Longlisted For The Samuel Johnson Prize 2014. Shortlisted For The FT Business Book Of The Year Award 2014. Longlisted For The Orwell Prize 2015. "Nick Davies is Britain's greatest investigative journalist...This book is as exciting as a thriller but far more important." (Peter Oborne, Daily Telegraph). At first, it seemed like a small story. The royal editor of the News of the World was caught listening to the voicemail messages of staff at Buckingham Palace. In 2007 he and a private investigator were sentenced to prison and the case was closed. But Nick Davies felt sure there was more to it and began his painstaking investigation which ultimately exposed a world of crime and cover-up, of fear and favour - reaching all the way to the top. This book is the definitive, inside story of one of the major scandals of our age. Drawing on exclusive interviews with private investigators, journalists, politicians, police officers and Murdoch executives, it blows the lid off Fleet Street, Scotland Yard - and Downing Street. It tells for the first time how Davies and a network of rebel lawyers, MPs and celebrities took on Rupert Murdoch, one of the most powerful men in the world. It takes us into the newsroom of the News of the World and exposes the bullying and law-breaking that went on there, and into the underworld of the private investigators who hacked phones, listened to live calls and bribed the police. It discloses how News International attempted to protect itself with lies and money; how the press regulator floundered; and the history of failure and official secrecy inside police ranks. Above all, this book paints an intimate portrait of the power elite which gave Murdoch privileged access to government, and allowed him and his people to intimidate anyone who stood up to them. Hack Attack is a nail-biting account of an investigative journalist's quest, and is a shining example of the might of good journalism. It tells the story of what happened when truth caught up with power.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element 21st century
9 (RLIN) 377108
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Topical term or geographic name entry element United Kingdom, Great Britain
9 (RLIN) 377109
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Press & journalism
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Karachi Karachi In Store 20/08/2016 1 070.10 PKLC012727 23/04/2019 20/08/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17   3 27/01/2019
Withdrawn   Dewey Decimal Classification     Lahore Lahore Computing and the Internet 20/04/2016   070.10 PKLC017748 27/04/2019 20/04/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 For Sale