"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 List Award-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 roller coaster 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".