The Greengrass Papers

by Tom Shone

SECRETS AND LIES. CONSPIRACY AND COVER UP. TIPPING POINT AND REVOLUTION. Where the redactions end, a Paul Greengrass film begins.




A graduate of Granada Television's award-winning
World in Action investigative reporting team, Greengrass has become one of the most successful and influential film-makers to come out of the British Isles.




Using blistering
vérité techniques forged on the streets of Beirut and Belfast, his films - including
The Bourne Supremacy,
The Bourne Ultimatum and
Captain Phillips - pack all the punch of news reports, taking more than a billion dollars at the box office and forever changing the way Hollywood makes movies.




Opening up his personal archive to film critic and historian Tom Shone for the first time, the film-maker lays bare the roots of his own obsession with unravelling the 'secret history of the West' and provides an exclusive inside track on a career that turned Hollywood upside down.

448 pages, Hardcover

Published November 11, 2025

About the author

Tom Shone was born in Horsham, England, in 1967. From 1994 to 1999 he was the film critic of the London Sunday Times and has since written for a number of publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, the London Daily Telegraph, and Vogue. He lives in Brooklyn, New York."

Reviews

[John Bleasdale · Rating 5 out of 5]

Utterly brilliant