Guardian Faber are publishing the first, and definitive, book on Edward Snowden, The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man by Luke Harding on Thursday 6 February.

Investigative journalism at its best, The Snowden Files tells the story of the individuals behind the biggest intelligence leak in history and the forces that tried to stop them.

It began with a tantalising, anonymous email: "I am a senior member of the intelligence community..." What followed was the most spectacular intelligence breach ever, brought about by one man. The consequences have shaken the leaders of nations worldwide. This is the inside story of Edward Snowden's deeds and the journalists who faced down pressure from the US and UK governments to break a remarkable scoop. What drove Snowden to sacrifice himself? Award-winning Guardian journalist Luke Harding answers the question which should trouble every citizen of the internet age. Foreign rights have been sold in seven countries so far, including Brazil, China, Korea, Norway and Japan.

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Review copies will be available on Monday 3 February. For further information, please contact Hayley Dunlop, hayley.dunlop@theguardian.com or Anna Pallai, Publicity Director Non-Fiction on 020 7927 3884 or email annap@faber.co.uk

About the author



Luke Harding is an award-winning foreign correspondent with the Guardian. He has reported from Delhi, Berlin and Moscow and has also covered wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is the author of Mafia State and co-author of WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy (2011) and The Liar: The Fall of Jonathan Aitken (1997), nominated for the Orwell Prize. The film rights to Wikileaks were sold to Dreamworks and the film, The Fifth Estate, came out in 2013. He has also written for the magazine Granta.