Permanent Record is the essential and courageous memoir of Edward Snowden - the man who risked everything to expose the shocking mass surveillance used by governments globally to spy on citizens. Spanning the bucolic suburbs of his youth and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, this is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online - who became a spy, a whistleblower and the Internet's conscience. A crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic.