Edward Snowden’s memoir Permanent Record will be published globally by Macmillan Publishers on 17 September 2019.

Written with wit, grace, passion and an unflinching candour, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir in our digital age and destined to become a classic.

The book will tell the story of Snowden’s time working as a CIA agent and NSA contractor, and the disillusionment he felt with the American intelligence establishment that led him to give up his future to share the truth about the US government’s pursuit of a mass surveillance system.

In 2013, Snowden, a former CIA agent and NSA contractor, shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the US government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every phone call, text message, and email ever sent.

The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth.

In Permanent Record, Snowden tells his story for the very first time, bringing the reader along as he helps to create this system of mass surveillance, and then experiences the crisis of conscience that led him to try to bring it down.

‘Edward Snowden decided at the age of 29 to give up his entire future for the good of his country,’ John Sargent, CEO of Macmillan Publishers, said. ‘He displayed enormous courage in doing so, and like him or not, his is an incredible American story.

‘There is no doubt that the world is a better and more private place for his actions. Macmillan is enormously proud to publish Permanent Record.’

To date, Permanent Record is being published in more than 20 countries.

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