Cover
Also by Edward Jay Epstein
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Prologue: Snowden’s Trail: Hong Kong, 2014
Part One: Snowden’s Arc
Chapter 1: Tinker
Chapter 2: Secret Agent
Chapter 3: Contractor
Chapter 4: Thief
Chapter 5: Crossing the Rubicon
Chapter 6: Hacktivist
Chapter 7: String Puller
Chapter 8: Raider of the Inner Sanctum
Chapter 9: Escape Artist
Chapter 10: Whistle-blower
Chapter 11: Enter Assange
Chapter 12: Fugitive
Part Two: The Intelligence Crisis
Chapter 13: The Great Divide
Chapter 14: The Crime Scene Investigation
Chapter 15: Did Snowden Act Alone?
Chapter 16: The Question of When
Chapter 17: The Keys to the Kingdom Are Missing
Chapter 18: The Unheeded Warning
Part Three: The Game of Nations
Chapter 19: The Rise of the NSA
Chapter 20: The NSA’s Back Door
Chapter 21: The Russians Are Coming
Chapter 22: The Chinese Puzzle
Chapter 23: A Single Point of Failure
Part Four: Moscow Calling
Chapter 24: Off to Moscow
Chapter 25: Through the Looking Glass
Chapter 26: The Handler
Part Five: Conclusions: Walking the Cat Back
Chapter 27: Snowden’s Choices
Chapter 28: The Espionage Source
Chapter 29: The “War on Terror” After Snowden
Epilogue: The Snowden Effect
Acknowledgments
Notes
Illustrations
Selected Bibliography
Illustration Credits
A Note About the Author