By Glenn Greenwald star of Citizenfour the Academy Award-winning documentary on Edward Snowden

In May 2013 Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted channels. That source turned out to be the twenty-nine-year-old NSA contractor Edward Snowden and his revelations about the agency's widespread systemic overreach proved to be some of the most explosive and consequential news in recent history triggering a fierce debate over national security and information privacy.
Now Greenwald fits all the pieces together recounting his high-intensity eleven-day trip to Hong Kong examining the broader implications of the surveillance detailed in his reporting for The Guardian and revealing fresh information on the NSA's unprecedented abuse of power with documents from the Snowden archive. Fearless and incisive No Place to Hide has already sparked outrage around the globe and been hailed by voices across the political spectrum as an essential contribution to our understanding of the U.S. surveillance state.

An Amazon Best Book of the Month?? May 2014: In May of 2013?? Edward Snowden?? a young systems administrator contracting for the National Security Agency?? fled the United States for Hong Kong?? carrying with him thousands of classified documents outlining the staggering capabilities of the NSA.??s surveillance programs--including those designed to collect information within the U.S. There Snowde