"The author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy follows his New York Times best-seller with hot undercover dispatches and old-style gumshoe detective ""work,"" illustrated with dozens of documents marked ""secret"" and ""confidential"" that have walked out of file cabinets and fallen into Palast's hands. The BBC television reporter offers inside info on the War on ""Terror,"" schemes to seize little nations with lots of ""oil,"" the plan to steal the 2008 ""election,"" and the media biases that keep it unreported."