{"product_id":"crime-in-progress-glenn-simpson-9780593134153","title":"Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e#1 \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER - \"I've read kind of all the books on this subject . . . and this is the one you want to read.\"--Rachel Maddow \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBefore Ukraine, before impeachment: This is the never-before-told inside story of the high-stakes, four-year-long investigation into Donald Trump's Russia ties--culminating in the Steele dossier, and sparking the Mueller report--from the founders of political opposition research company Fusion GPS. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFusion GPS was founded in 2010 by Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, two former reporters at \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal \u003c\/i\u003ewho decided to abandon the struggling news business and use their reporting skills to conduct open-source investigations for businesses and law firms--and opposition research for political candidates. In the fall of 2015, they were hired to look into the finances of Donald Trump. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat began as a march through a mind-boggling trove of lawsuits, bankruptcies, and sketchy overseas projects soon took a darker turn: The deeper Fusion dug, the more it began to notice names that Simpson and Fritsch had come across during their days covering Russian corruption--and the clearer it became that the focus of Fusion's research going forward would be Trump's entanglements with Russia. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo help them make sense of what they were seeing, Simpson and Fritsch engaged the services of a former British intelligence agent and Russia expert named Christopher Steele. He would produce a series of memos--which collectively became known as the Steele dossier--that raised deeply alarming questions about the nature of Trump's ties to a hostile foreign power. Those memos made their way to U.S. intelligence agencies, and then to President Barack Obama and President-elect Trump. On January 10, 2017, the Steele dossier broke into public view, and the Trump-Russia story reached escape velocity. At the time, Fusion GPS was just a ten-person consulting firm tucked away above a Starbucks near Dupont Circle, but it would soon be thrust into the center of the biggest news story on the planet--a story that would lead to accusations of witch hunts, a relentless campaign of persecution by congressional Republicans, bizarre conspiracy theories, lawsuits by Russian oligarchs, and the Mueller report. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCrime in Progress\u003c\/i\u003e, Simpson and Fritsch tell their story for the first time--a tale of the high-stakes pursuit of one of the biggest, most important stories of our time--no matter the costs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Glenn Simpson, Peter Fritsch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 059313415X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593134153\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/26\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/0001","brand":"Glenn Simpson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46838349693183,"sku":"9780593134153","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a4a88e16-cdff-4e26-822e-be43982a06be.jpg?v=1746589553","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/crime-in-progress-glenn-simpson-9780593134153","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}