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Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch

Nick Davies

A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014 SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2015 At first, it seemed like a small story. The royal correspondent of the News of the World was cuaght listening in on Buckingham Palace voicemails. He was quietly sent to prison and the case was closed. But Nick Davies felt sure there was a lot more going on. And he was right. Hack Attack is the definitive inside story of one of the major scandals of our age, told by the man who exposed it. Davies and a network of rebel lawyers, MPs and celebrities took on Rupert Murdoch, one of the most powerful men in the world, and in bringing him down they uncovered a world of crime and cover-up reaching from the newsroom to Scotland Yard and to Downing Street. This is the story of a network of corruption rooted deep within our society, and how it was dragged into the light.

Journalism & ReportageJournalism & Reportage · medium confidenceJournalism & Reportage81 signalsLlm Classifier: Journalism & Reportage -> Journalism & ReportageGoogle Books: Biography & Autobiography -> Memoir & AutobiographyGoogle Books: Biography & Autobiography -> BiographyPrisons & IncarcerationBusiness, Capitalism & CorporationsCrime, Policing & ViolenceLiterature & Writers

Award History

0 wins · 2 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
FT Business Book of the YearMajor2014ShortlistSecondary source
Orwell Prize: Combined Book Prize (Nonfiction works)2015ShortlistSecondary source
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Experimental book profileGenerated by GPT-5.4 nano · may contain inaccuracies

This is an unverified interpretation of the catalog description, offered as an opt-in discovery experiment—not as bibliographic fact.

  1. 01 Central figures

    • Rupert Murdoch78%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • Buckingham Palace46%
    • Scotland Yard38%
    • Downing Street38%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    The scandal involving Rupert Murdoch was part of a broad network of corruption and cover-up that extended from the newsroom to Scotland Yard and Downing Street, and was eventually brought to light.

    Model confidence 62%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    34 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 72%.