Spooked: The men and women paid by the super-wealthy to bury the evidence
Donald Trump features prominently in this exposé of the lengths private investigators will go to when asked by wealthy and prominent individuals to dig the dirt on their adversaries
NON-FICTION/POLITICS
Spooked: The Secret Rise of Private Spies
By Barry Meier
Sceptre, €20.25
In the mid-1980s, Donald Trump was considering buying a casino in Atlantic City. The property developer suspected that organised crime figures were involved in the casino, so he hired private investigators. Trump believed that if he could prove his hunch was correct, he could negotiate a better price.
When the investigators’ report found no evidence linking the casino to organised crime, however, ...