Grey Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America’s First Cyber Spy

Eric O’Neill was solely twenty-six when he was tapped for the case of a lifetime: a one-on-one undercover investigation of the FBI’s prime goal, a person suspected of spying for the Russians for almost 20 years, giving up nuclear secrets and techniques, compromising intelligence, and betraying US belongings. With zero coaching in face-to-face investigation, O’Neill discovered himself in a windowless, high-security workplace within the newly fashioned Data Assurance Part, tasked formally with serving to the FBI safe its outdated laptop system towards hackers and spies—and unofficially with amassing proof towards his new boss, Robert Hanssen, an exacting and rage-prone veteran agent with a keenness for handguns. Within the months that comply with, O’Neill’s shallowness and younger marriage unravel beneath the stress of life in Room 9930, and he questions the very goal of his mission. However as Hanssen outmaneuvers an intelligence group struggling to maintain up with the brand new actuality of cybersecurity, he additionally teaches O’Neill the sport of spycraft. The coed will simply must be taught to outplay his trainer if he desires to win.
 
A tension-packed stew of energy, paranoia, and psychological manipulation, Grey Day can also be a cautionary story of how america allowed Russia to change into dominant in cyberespionage—and the way we’d start to catch up.