Craig Unger

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The explosive inside story of the October Surprise conspiracy, a stunning act of treason that changed American history. New York Times bestselling author Craig Unger reveals his thirty-year investigation into the secret collusion between Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign and Iran, raising urgent questions about what happens when foreign meddling in our elections goes unpunished and what gets remembered when the political price for treason is victory.

"What if the scariest political thriller you ever read were a true story? [In Den of Spies], veteran journalist Craig Unger makes the case that during the 1980 presidential election, Ronald Reagan’s campaign helped to ensure victory over Jimmy Carter by promising arms to Iran, but only on one condition: Iran had to wait until after the election to release the American hostages so that Carter wouldn’t get credit for freeing them. Unger put his credibility and his career on the line to tell the tale—and nearly ruined both. But after decades of investigation, he’s finally collected all the receipts and laid them out for the world to see. He brings a stunning amount of research to the table, but he also constructs his narrative like an expert thriller. This perversion of justice will chill you, especially because it still resonates today."

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[House of Trump, House of Putin]… is an extraordinary book! An unapologetic telling of the story of our days… [and] what Unger calls the greatest active measure intelligence operation in human history….Highly recommended.”

—Jamie Raskin (D-MD), impeachment manager for the second impeachment of Donald Trump and a member of the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack
“America has removed Putin’s puppet from the White House, but the KGB man who controlled him is still in the Kremlin, eager to repeat the success of his greatest operation: President Trump. Read Craig Unger’s American Kompromat to understand why the danger to American democracy is far from over.”

—Garry Kasparov, Chairman of the Renew Democracy Foundation and author of Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
“In American Kompromat, for the first time a former KGB employee has gone on record to describe Donald Trump’s historic relationship with the Kremlin. It’s a bombshell!”

—Robert Baer, former CIA operative and author of See No Evil
“American Kompromat is a must-read. The gun’s not quite smoking, but the barrel’s plenty hot, and there are Russian shell casings all around.”

—Kirkus
“House of Trump, House of Putin is damning in its accumulation of detail, terrifying in its depiction of the pure evil of those Trump chose to do business with.”

—The Spectator (UK)

[House of Trump, House of Putin]… is an extraordinary book! An unapologetic telling of the story of our days… [and] what Unger calls the greatest active measure intelligence operation in human history….Highly recommended.”

“In American Kompromat, for the first time a former KGB employee has gone on record to describe Donald Trump’s historic relationship with the Kremlin. It’s a bombshell!”

“American Kompromat is a must-read. The gun’s not quite smoking, but the barrel’s plenty hot, and there are Russian shell casings all around.”

“House of Trump, House of Putin is damning in its accumulation of detail, terrifying in its depiction of the pure evil of those Trump chose to do business with.”