Research Catalog

Title

The Hank show : how a house-painting, drug-running DEA informant built the machine that rules our lives / McKenzie Funk.

Author

Funk, McKenzie

Publication

• New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Description

viii, 296 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"The bizarre and captivating story of the most important person you've never heard of. The world we live in today, where everything is tracked by corporations and governments, originates with one manic, elusive, utterly unique man--as prone to bullying as he was to fits of surpassing generosity and surprising genius. His name was Hank Asher, and his life was a strange and spectacular show that changed the course of the future. In The Hank Show, critically acclaimed author and journalist McKenzie Funk relates Asher's stranger-than-fiction story-he careened from drug-running pilot to alleged CIA asset, only to be reborn as the pioneering computer programmer known as the father of data fusion. He was the billionaire whose creations now power a new reality where your every move is tracked by police departments, intelligence agencies, political parties, and financial firms alike. But his success was not without setbacks. He truly lived nine lives, on top of the world one minute, only to be forced out of the companies he founded and blamed for data breaches resulting in major lawsuits and market chaos. In the vein of the blockbuster movie Catch Me if You Can, this spellbinding work of narrative nonfiction propels you forward on a forty year journey of intrigue and innovation, from Colombia to the White House and from Silicon Valley to the 2016 Trump campaign, focusing a lens on the dark side of American business and its impact on the everyday fabric of our modern lives"--

Alternative Title

How a house-painting, drug-running Drug Enforcement Administration informant built the machine that rules our lives

Subject

• Asher, Hank, 1951-2013
• Businesspeople > United States > Biography
• Multisensor data fusion > United States
• Data privacy > United States
• Criminal investigation > United States > Data processing
• Data mining > United States
• Data mining in law enforcement > United States
• Businesspeople
• Data mining
• Data mining in law enforcement
• Data privacy
• Multisensor data fusion
• Criminal investigation > Data processing
• Criminal investigation
• Biography
• United States

Genre/Form

• Biography.
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Prologue: Analog -- Author's interlude -- Mr. John Adams -- Descent -- A half-dozen chickens -- The paranoid style in American computing -- Sunshine -- Pattern recognition -- Private/public -- The purge list -- 9/13 -- Never forget -- Fish in a barrel -- A spill at the refinery -- The social graph -- The last fucking one -- The epidemiology of violence -- Permanent ID -- The score -- Desaparecidos -- The violence of epidemiology -- Epilogue: ones and zeroes -- A note on sources -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Call Number

JFE 23-3442

ISBN

• 9781250209276
• 1250209277
• 9781250276544 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023024858

OCLC

1382527763

Author

Funk, McKenzie, author.

Title

The Hank show : how a house-painting, drug-running DEA informant built the machine that rules our lives / McKenzie Funk.

Publisher

New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 23-3442