Barry Meier is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times investigative reporter. He's twice won the George Polk award for Investigative Reporting. Prior to joining the New York Times in 1989, he worked for the Wall Street Journal and New York Newsday.
Meier sets out to investigate the investigations industry . . . a revealing read -- Brendan Daly * Business Post * A gobsmacking book detailing the rise of wannabe James Bonds . . . an enjoyable romp through the stranger-than-fiction world of private intelligence agencies... Meier is a Pulitzer-winning former New York Times reporter, and he stirs an incredible amount of well-researched material into this book . . . a mad whirl of double-cross, Machiavellian machinations and, of course, money. -- Darragh McManus * Irish Independent *