Title Synopsis: In June of 2013, Edward Snowden, a twenty-nine-year-old former CIA employee, leaked thousands of top-secret National Security Agency (NSA) documents to journalist Glen Greenwald. Branded as a whistleblower, Snowden reignited a debate about private citizens who reveal government secrets that should be exposed but may endanger the lives of others. Like the late Karen Silkwood, whose death in a car accident while bringing incriminating evidence against her employer to a meeting with a New York Times reporter is still a mystery, Snowden was intent upon revealing the controversial practices of his employer, a government contractor. Rightly or wrongly, Snowden and Silkwood believed that their revelations would save lives. In his riveting, thought-provoking book, Richard Rashke weaves between the lives of these two controversial figures and creates a narrative context for a discussion of what constitutes a citizen's duty to reveal or not to reveal.
About the Author: RICHARD RASHKE is a lecturer and author of non-fiction books including Stormy Genius: The Life of Aviation's Maverick Bill Lear, Useful Enemies: John Demjanjuk and America's Open Door Policy for Nazi War Criminals, Escape from Sobibor, and The Killing of Karen Silkwood. Rashke is featured in the award-winning international television series Nazi Hunters. His works have been translated into thirteen languages and have been the subject of movies for screen and television. A produced screenwriter and playwright, his work has appeared on network television and off-Broadway. He is also an alto sax player and composer. His composition, Crane Wife, a family musical based on a Japanese folktale, was performed at the Kennedy Center. More than 250,000 school children have seen a live performance of his play Dear Esther, about a Sobibor death camp survivor. He lives in Wisconsin. www.richardrashke.com
Author: Richard Rashke
Narrator: Jamie Renell, Shannon Nicole Locke
Publisher: KR Associates
Copyright: 2026 Richard Rashke
Audiobook Release Date: 2026-06-15
Original Book Release Date: 2015-12-08
Running Time: 04:50:20
Track Count: 21
Audiobook ISBN: 9781971980171