Ghost Stories For the End of the World: The Octopus Reading List
1. 
The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro
by:
Kenn Thomas
3.81 avg rating — 195 ratings 
4. 
The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal
by:
Cheri Seymour
4.21 avg rating — 52 ratings 5. 
The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs and Murder
by:
Sally Denton
3.78 avg rating — 1,647 ratings 
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Social Network Analysis in Predictive Policing: Concepts, Models and Methods (Lecture Notes in Social Networks) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Merchants of Menace: The True Story of the Nugan Hand Bank Scandal
by:
Peter Butt
3.89 avg rating — 37 ratings 
12. 
Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh 4.57 avg rating — 561 ratings
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House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties
by:
Craig Unger
3.91 avg rating — 1,528 ratings 
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Disconnecting the Dots: How 9/11 Was Allowed to Happen
by:
Kevin Fenton
3.94 avg rating — 31 ratings 16. 
ROGUE AGENTS: The Cercle and the 6I in the Private Cold War 1951 - 1991
by:
David Teacher
4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings 17. 
Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street's Wildest Con
by:
Guy Lawson
3.72 avg rating — 868 ratings 18. 
19. 
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
by:
Jill Lepore
3.72 avg rating — 2,547 ratings 
21. 
Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex
by:
Yasha Levine
4.26 avg rating — 1,113 ratings 
23. 
The Drone Age: How Drone Technology Will Change War and Peace
by:
Michael J. Boyle
3.81 avg rating — 36 ratings 24. 
Converge: A futurist's insights into the potential of our world as technology and humanity collide
by:
Catherine Ball
3.76 avg rating — 90 ratings 25. 
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
by:
Gary Webb
4.30 avg rating — 1,967 ratings 26. 
Blond Ghost: Ted Shackley And The CIA's Crusades
by:
David Corn
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 25 ratings 27. 
Eyes In The Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All 3.79 avg rating — 259 ratings
28. 
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
by:
Bethany McLean
4.22 avg rating — 27,094 ratings 29. 
MI6 and the Machinery of Spying: Structure and Process in Britain's Secret Intelligence 3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings
30. 
Bombs for Peace: NATO's Humanitarian War on Yugoslavia
by:
George Szamuely
3.35 avg rating — 17 ratings 31. 
Dreamland: Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell and Area 51
by:
Phil Patton
3.51 avg rating — 214 ratings 32. 
34. 
Defrauding America, 4th Ed. Volume Two: A Trojan Horse Legacy
by:
Rodney Stich
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 
36. 
The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group
by:
Dan Briody
3.58 avg rating — 218 ratings 37. 
The Buyout of America: How Private Equity Will Cause the Next Great Credit Crisis
by:
Joshua Kosman
3.57 avg rating — 180 ratings 
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by:
Lawrence Wright
4.36 avg rating — 36,108 ratings 42. 
McMafia: A Journey through the Global Criminal Underworld
by:
Misha Glenny
3.91 avg rating — 4,867 ratings 
44. 
A Game as Old as Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption
by:
Steven Hiatt
3.82 avg rating — 392 ratings 45. 
46. 
The Richest Man in the World: The Story of Adnan Khashoggi
by:
Ronald Kessler
3.78 avg rating — 123 ratings 47. 
48. 
The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World 3.94 avg rating — 373 ratings
50. 
Origins of Mass Communications Research During the American Cold War: Educational Effects and Contemporary Implications
by:
Timothy Glander
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 51. 
Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil 4.06 avg rating — 837 ratings
52. 
The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power
by:
Max Chafkin
3.61 avg rating — 2,189 ratings 53. 
Bland Fanatics: Liberals, the West, and the Afterlives of Empire
by:
Pankaj Mishra
3.86 avg rating — 516 ratings 54. 
The Yankee and Cowboy War: Conspiracies from Dallas to Watergate
by:
Carl Oglesby
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 99 ratings 55. 
Dark Victory: Ronald Reagan, MCA, and the Mob (Forbidden Bookshelf Book 23)
by:
Dan E. Moldea
3.69 avg rating — 55 ratings 56. 
The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery: The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry
by:
Martin Mayer
3.04 avg rating — 26 ratings 57. 
The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade
by:
Alfred W. McCoy
4.37 avg rating — 683 ratings 
59. 
The Sydney Connection: Nugan Hand, Murray Riley & the murder of Donald MacKay
by:
John Jiggens
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 60. 
Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs
by:
Mark Pilkington
3.95 avg rating — 538 ratings 61. 
Godfather of the Kremlin: The Decline of Russia in the Age of Gangster Capitalism
by:
Paul Klebnikov
4.23 avg rating — 355 ratings 
63. 
The Age of Jihad: Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East
by:
Patrick Cockburn
4.31 avg rating — 438 ratings 
65. 
Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness
by:
Newton Lee
3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings 66. 
67. 
Masters of Paradise: Organised Crime and the Internal Revenue Service in the Bahamas
by:
Alan Block
3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings 
69. 
The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride Into the Secret Heart of BCCI
by:
Jonathan Beaty
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 95 ratings 70. 
Totally Wired: The Rise and Fall of Josh Harris and The Great Dotcom Swindle
by:
Andrew Smith
3.66 avg rating — 90 ratings 71. 
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
by:
Vincent Bevins
4.61 avg rating — 14,810 ratings