Armed madhouse : undercover dispatches from a dying regime

"Razor sharp research ...shows why every US citizen should be quaking in their boots" - "Metro, Books of the Year".

Bill Hicks with a press pass. "The ListAward-winning guerrilla journalist Greg Palast has gone where most have been too scared to unearth the ugly truth about the haves and have-mores who rule our world ...America.

Here he reports from behind enemy lines to reveal just how bad it's got in a dangerous regime: How elections are bought and free speech comes at a price.

How citizens are ruled by fear; and, How our brave new globalized world means the poor get hammered, while corporations silently buy up the planet?

It's not pretty - but it's all true ..."Palast is one of the few journalists writing who has both the anger and the wit to offer himself up as a persuasive - and more importantly, readable - voice of the left" - "Observer". "A rollercoaster ride from Baghdad to New Orleans and Osama bin Laden's cave to the back rooms of the Pentagon" -"Big Issue". "Very funny ...For anyone who thinks that no-one from the US knows what's going on, Palast is the perfect riposte" - "Guardian".