Twenty-five years after publication of The Shadows of Power, James Perloff returns to the venue of political history, and takes you where the mass media won't. * Who benefited from the mysterious sinking of the USS Maine? * Why did President Woodrow Wilson order the manifest of the torpedoed Lusitania hidden in the archives of the U.S. Treasury? * After the official inquiry into the Pearl Harbor attack, why did Admiral Kimmel and General Short - the...

Was Princess Diana the victim of a tragic traffic accident, or a murder scheme? Was the TWA Flight 800 brought down by a missile or a faulty fuel tank? Was it a flying saucer that crashed into the desert scrubland near Roswell? What is the story of strip club owner Jack Ruby? Did Ruby's murder of Lee Harvey Oswald signal a far wider conspiracy in the death of John Kennedy? Uses original documents and interviews with experts and eyewitnesses.

"London 1909: The British Empire spans the globe, seen as an invulnerable imperial power. But Captain Vernon Kell, head of counter-intelligence at the War Office, knows better. In Russia, there is revolution in the wind; in Germany, an arms race; and in London, the streets are alive with foreign agents provocateur. Kell wants to set up a Secret Service, an agency with a mandate to act domestically and abroad to protect the Empire, but to convince...