Principled Spying: The Ethics of Secret Intelligence

by Mark Phythian David Omand, Mark Phythian

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Genres: Nonfiction, Espionage

304 pages, Hardcover

First published March 13, 2018

Reviews

[Marie Froste · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book has some fundamental issues that it neither discusses nor overcomes, the greatest of which is the mixup of ethics and law. Ethics and law are not the same, and what is legal is not always moral. The authors seem entirely unaware of the inherent difficulties in assuming the two are the same. This makes for problematic conclusions and recommendations.

The book does ask many interesting questions, but leaves most of them unanswered which is quite unfortunate. Add to that a lacking presentation of the book - while divided into chapters it entirely lacks any headings - and it results in a review of only two stars.

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

When I have seen this volume I wanted it bad. I was expecting a comedy book. Instead I almost fell off my chair. Torture. Secret prisons. Political assassinations. Subverting democratic vote. Drug and weapons trafficking. True values, for an ethical field of work. And as long as there will be kings, monsters like Omand will weave their stories or ethics.