Todays intelligence community faces challenges that would have been inconceivable only a dozen years ago. Just as al-Qaedas destruction of the Twin Towers heralded a revolution in global diplomacy the events of 9/11 also threw two centuries of spy-craft into turmoil
- because this new enemy could not be bought. Gone were the sleepers & moles whose trade in secrets had sustained intelligence agencies in both peacetime & war. A new method of intelligence-gathering had been born. The award-winning former Financial Times Security correspondent Mark Huband here takes us deep inside this new unseen world of spies & intelligence. With privileged access to intelligence officers from Rome to Kabul & from Khartoum to Guantanamo Bay he reveals how spies created secret channels to the IRA deceived Irans terrorist allies frequently attempted to infiltrate al-Qaeda & forced Libya to abandon its nuclear weapons. Trading Secrets provides a unique & controversial assessment of the ability of the major intelligence agencies to combat the threat of twenty-first century terrorism.