Blank Spots on the Map
The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · March 2, 2010
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- Who it’s for
- A searching road trip into the geography of state secrecy.
- Genres
- Intelligence & Spycraft, Security Studies, Intelligence & Espionage
- Published
- Penguin Publishing Group, March 2, 2010
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Welcome to a top-level clearance world that doesn't exist...Now with updated material for the paperback edition. This is the adventurous, insightful, and often chilling story of a road trip through a shadow nation of state secrets, clandestine military bases, black sites, hidden laboratories, and top-secret agencies that make up what insiders call the "black world."
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Here, geographer and provocateur Trevor Paglen knocks on the doors of CIA prisons, stakes out a covert air base in Nevada from a mountaintop 30 miles away, dissects the Defense Department's multibillion dollar "black" budget, and interviews those who live on the edges of these blank spots. Whether Paglen reports from a hotel room in Vegas, a secret prison in Kabul, or a trailer in Shoshone Indian territory, he is impassioned, rigorous, relentless-and delivers eye-opening details.
Where Maps Go Blank
A searching road trip into the geography of state secrecy.
Come here for
- On-the-ground reporting from hidden military and intelligence sites
- A sharp look at the machinery and geography of secrecy
Expect
- Investigative travel writing with an edgy, rigorous feel
- Chilling details from the edges of the black world
Where it sits
| Intelligence & Spycraft | 80% |
|---|---|
| Security Studies | 48% |
| Intelligence & Espionage | 33% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- U.S. Military History
- Intelligence & Spycraft
- Military Policy & Defense
- Authors
- Trevor Paglen
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- March 2, 2010
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- U.S. Military History