Crime In Progress - The Secret History Of The Trump-Russia Investigation

Ah yes, Crime in Progress — because apparently modern politics was not already confusing enough without adding private investigators, intelligence memos, Russian connections, media panic, legal drama, and everyone shouting “nothing to see here” while standing in front of several suspiciously smoking documents.

Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, co-founders of Fusion GPS, give their insider account of the Trump-Russia investigation and the now-famous research that helped ignite one of the loudest political storms of the 2010s. This is not a calm stroll through constitutional process. It is more like being handed a torch and pushed into a filing cabinet during a thunderstorm.

The book mixes political intrigue, investigative reporting, opposition research, international money trails, kompromat rumours, and the strange spectacle of democracy trying to debug itself in public. Whether one comes to it as a political junkie, a sceptic, a believer, or merely someone who enjoys watching powerful people deny things in increasingly elaborate ways, there is plenty here to chew over.

It is, naturally, one of those books where everyone involved insists they are the responsible adult in the room, which is always when you should start checking the exits.

This Penguin Books edition is in Good condition, as sold by Crappy Old Books. A solid copy for readers of political history, Trump-era drama, investigative journalism, and the great modern sport of trying to work out which scandal was the scandal about the scandal.

A brisk, tangled, very 2020 sort of book: part dossier, part defence, part warning label for the information age.

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