{"id":8714,"date":"2020-12-09T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=8714"},"modified":"2020-12-08T18:29:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T23:29:14","slug":"private-eyes-2020-incarnation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=8714","title":{"rendered":"Private Eyes: 2020 Incarnation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Patrick Radden Keefe<\/a> in The New Yorker<\/em> reviews a couple of recent books about the private investigation industry and its changing role. One of them, The Modern Detective: How Corporate Intelligence is Reshaping the World<\/em><\/a>, by Tyler Maroney, was named a 2020 favorite by Kevin Burton Smith, who monitors PI stuff on his web site, for the Private Eye Writers of America, and for Mystery Scene<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than thirty thousand private investigators are working in the United States, and while some of them engage in the activities that find their way into crime stories\u2014investigating kidnappings, flagging cheating spouses or employees, and finding missing persons\u2014a lot of what modern PI\u2019s do is less juicy corporate work. They check out potential employees, track missing assets, scour proposals for multibillion-dollar deals, assess corporations\u2019 potential partners, engage in (presumably) white-hat hacking, and amass opposition research from the undrained swamp of politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These activities are ubiquitous in the corporate world today. Globalization, deregulation, and rapid technological change have created the opportunity for whole new chapters in the secret investigations playbook, as well as new criminal opportunities and strategies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the growth in that sector of the industry, tales of insider trading, corruption, and fraud are a regular feature of the news media. You have to wonder, is the investigations business simply ineffective in curbing bad behavior, or is the malfeasance we read about only the tip of what would be a glacier-sized iceberg if the investigators\u2019 weren\u2019t on the job?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Says Keefe, the book \u201cis not an expos\u00e9. It is part memoir, part how-to guide, a celebration of the analytical and interpersonal intelligence that makes a great investigator.\u201d Those are the traits that have given Poe\u2019s Auguste Dupin and Conan Doyle\u2019s Sherlock Holmes nearly a century and a half of popularity. Sounds like a must-read!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

World-Rocking Reading List:<\/strong>
The Modern Detective: How Corporate Intelligence is Reshaping the World<\/em><\/a>
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World<\/em><\/a>
Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy: The Secret World of Corporate Espionage<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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