Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter James Risen is what every investigative reporter should be: fearless, relentless, and constantly in search of uncomfortable truths that the government tries to cover up. For his efforts, especially in his previous bestselling book, State of War, he has become a target of both the Bush and Obama administrations, and he still faces the threat of jail time for his refusal to reveal how he found out so much information about an important story of CIA bungling.

As he writes in Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; October 14, 2014): “My answer – both to the government’s long campaign against me and to this endless war – is this new book. [It] is my answer to how best to challenge the government’s draconian efforts to crack down on aggressive investigative reporting and suppress the truth in the name of ceaseless war. My answer is to keep writing, because I believe that if journalists ever stop uncovering abuses of power, and ever stop publishing stories about those abuses, we will lose our democracy.”

In Pay Any Price, Risen weaves shocking story after shocking story into his broadest canvass yet: a picture of how our endless war on terror has so corrupted us, so vastly warped the use of state power, that America is waging wars on decency and truth.

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