by Nick Davies
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A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nick Davies is an award-winning investigative reporter and the author of five books, including the bestselling Flat Earth News. He has been named Reporter of the Year, Journalist of the Year, and Feature Writer of the Year at the British Press Awards, and has won eight additional prizes for his work uncovering the phone-hacking scandal. He is a special correspondent for The Guardian.
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Originally published in 2014 by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain, as Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch
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First American edition, 2014
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Davies, Nick, 1953 –
Hack attack: the inside story of how the truth caught up with Rupert Murdoch / Nick Davies. — First American edition.
pages cm
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-86547-881-7 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-86547-882-4 (e-book)
1. News of the World Phone Hacking Scandal, Great Britain, 2000–2012. 2. Newspapers—Corrupt practices—Great Britain. 3. Journalism—Corrupt practices—Great Britain. 4. Murdoch, Rupert, 1931– I. Title.
PN5130.N48D38 2014
072'.1—dc23
2014013578
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