Description: Author of the #1 "New York Times" bestseller "Against All Enemies," former presidential advisor and counter-terrorism expert Clarke sounds a timely and chilling warning about America's vulnerability in a terrifying new international conflict.
Brief description:
Richard A. Clarke, a veteran of thirty years in national security and over a decade in the White House, is now the CEO of a cyber-security consulting firm. He is the author of seven previous books, including the bestsellers Against All Enemies and Cyber War.
Review Quotes:
"Clarke gives a valuable insight into the secret wars of the 1990s that erupted into the public view on Sept. 11, 2001, and to the attitudes that shape U.S. policy today. . . . Clarke traces the evolution of radical Islamic terrorist groups and the U.S. responses to them since the 1980s. The history is particularly fascinating in filling in details and background to larger public events throughout the 1990s, a string that almost amounts to a secret war against terror." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"In this chilling and eye-opening book, Clarke and Knake provide a highly detailed yet accessible look at how cyber warfare is being waged and the need to rethink our national security to face this new threat." - Booklist
"[CYBER WAR] may be the most important book about national-security policy in the last several years." - Slate
"Will strengthen Clarke's claims as one of the founding fathers of cybersecurocracy....It is worth buying this book if only for his pithy five-page vision of this coming apocalypse and a return to stone-age conditions within a week, all because of a few pesky hackers and viruses." - Financial Times
"Clarke and Knake are right to sound the alarm." - Wall Street Journal
"Chilling... [A] harrowing -- and persuasive -- picture of the cyberthreat the United States faces today." - Michiko Kakutani, New York Times