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It includes surveillance footage, intelligence reports, phone transcripts, the business cards and letterheads used as trading fronts, driving licences and passport applications in multiple identities, and cryptic faxes from the Far East. But more than that, it offers a vista onto his many and varied experiences and escapades, through notebooks, personal items and correspondence with the bizarre, wonderful, comic or downright suspicious characters who surrounded him.  It includes extracts from a lavishly detailed and hitherto unpublished account of Howard's years on the run (written in confidence for the benefit of his otherwise baffled defence team) together with transcripts from his trial at the Old Bailey, in which he successfully claimed that his involvement in the biggest ever importation of cannabis into the United Kingdom was on behalf of the secret services.  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A chance encounter with a police sniffer-dog draws criminal lawyer Amber Marks into the hidden world of the science of smell and its law-enforcement applications. She soon stumbles into a wonderland of contemporary surveillance, where she observes at first hand how scientists, businesses and the military are trying to harness the dubious capabilities of technology and mother nature. But as she comes into closer contact with the security services she finds herself questioning the true purpose of their information-gathering and asks: who stands to benefit from a surveillance society? Are you ready to discover the smell of fear?Amber Marks, formerly a barrister, is a freelance journalist. She has written for the \"Guardian\" and is a regular contributor to the \"Register\". This is her first book. 'The Surveillance Society is here as never before, and in this highly personal and revealing study, Amber Marks has shown herself to be one of its most far-reaching, incisive and witty critics...this is an absolute must-read' - Tony Hanania, author of \"Unreal City\". 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Part polemical exploration of our burgeoning surveillance society, part humorous memoir, this intriguing book will capture your imagination and get you wondering: just who stands to benefit from all this 'security'?","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49613353320721,"sku":"GOR001148948","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0753515547.jpg?v=1751263884"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-amber-marks.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}