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Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark
Corporate and Police Spying on Activists

Author: Eveline Lubbers
ISBN: 9780745331850
Extent: 272pp
Publisher: Pluto Press
Format: Paperback and hardcover

Secret Manoeuvres is widely available in bookshops (if not: tell them to stock it!), and on the internet as well. Some suggestions to get an idea of the pricing and where your money goes.

United Kingdom

SpinWatch bookshop for £15 (and £17 incl. postage) and support SpinWatch.org with your purchase.
Pluto Press the publishers: Buy Now for £17.50. (Hardcover at £63)

The Netherlands

buy in the shop or online from the International Bookshop Sjakoo.

eBook

It’s also available for Kindle: Amazon.co.uk or at Amazon.com. Does not come cheap though, Pluto is looking into it (May 2016).

United States

University of Chicago Press $34, or $115 for the hardcover; bookshops can order here as well.

Australia

CoInfo for AUD 52.68 (ex. GST).

Other books

The book before this was Battling Big Business, Countering greenwash, front groups and other forms of corporate deception (Green Books UK and Common Courage Press USA, 2002).
Almost out of print! For copies at discount prices, check the SpinWatch book shop. Also on sale is the Dutch translation called Schone Schijn, smerige streken in de strijd tussen burger en bedrijfsleven. And last but not least, the on line bookshop of Het Fort van Sjakoo also sells these books – and many more.

For reviews of Battling Big Business, see my – neglected – website at evel.nl.

The exposure of undercover policeman Mark Kennedy in the eco-activist movement revealed how the state monitors and undermines political activism. This book shows the other grave threat to our political freedoms - undercover activities by corporations.

Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark documents how corporations are halting legitimate action and investigation by activists. Using exclusive access to previously confidential sources, Eveline Lubbers shows how companies such as Nestlé, Shell and McDonald's use covert methods to evade accountability. She argues that corporate intelligence gathering has shifted from being reactive to pro-active, with important implications for democracy itself.

Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark will be vital reading for activists, investigative and citizen journalists, and all who care about freedom and democracy in the 21st century.

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