FStech has been following the Visa/MasterCard/WikiLeaks row with great interest so I was keen to get hold of a review copy of this "bile-flecked" book (Private Eye's words, not mine). It begins with a note from the publisher, Canongate, explaining how Assange signed a contract with them in December 2010, then in June 2011 said that he wanted to cancel it. Having read the first draft, he declared: 'All memoir is prostitution.'
But Canongate, having reportedly forked out around £350,000 to woo Assange, decided to publish and be damned. The result is a work that is glaringly incomplete but nonetheless immensely readable and intriguing in the way it casts the WikiLeaks founder not as some revolutionary figure, but rather an unremarkable nerd.
Further info here.
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