THE STORY OF A RELENTLESS RISE: Explains how the rise of big security from the 1990s is at the root of our modern permacrisis. The book's argument only becomes more prescient and pressing with each day of the news cycle. GLOBAL APPEAL: Investigates big security across all seven continents, including Mali, Sweden, Israel, Mexico, South Africa, the USA, China and more, from an author who speaks Swedish, Spanish, English and French. ADVENTUROUS REPORTAGE: Andersson has reported on the ground for over twenty years, from the Sahel to Mexico, and brings this gonzo energy to his writing, with a vivid sense of character and place. BRINGING IT HOME: Alongside the big picture politics, the book has relatable sections on our everyday private lives, as we all become willingly complicit in the security machine. PERFECT FOR FANS OF The Shock Doctrine, Bullshit Jobs or Surveillance Capitalism Competition: surveillance capitalism; the shock doctrine; technofeudalism; careless people; on tyranny; crashed; how democracy ends; globalization and its discontents. naomi klein; yanis varoufakis; shoshana zuboff; adam tooze; pankaj mishra; rutger bregman; sarah wynn-williams; sam freedman; timothy snyder; peter pomerantsev;.