The breathtaking expose of a top-secret campaign of surveillance against British citizens, now fully updated.
The gripping stories of a group of police spies - written by the award-winning investigative journalists who exposed the 'Mark Kennedy' scandal - and the uncovering of forty years of state sponsored espionage. This was an undercover operation so secret that some of our most senior police officers had no idea it even existed. The job of the clandestine unit was to monitor British 'subversives' environmental activists, anti-racist groups, animal rights campaigners.Paul Lewis, the Guardian UK's Special Projects Editor, is the journalist behind the revelations about police involvement in the death of newspaper vendor Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests. He is the winner of the Bevins Prize for Outstanding Investigative Journalism and was voted Journalist of the Year and awarded the British Press Award for 2010.
Rob Evans, a Guardian UK reporter since 1999, has won awards for exposing corruption such as BAE's corrupt payments and for his freedom of information work. He is the author of 'Gassed', a book published in 2000 revealing British chemical warfare experiments on unsuspecting soldiers.