Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

The messiah is betrayed

A monsoon of literature will eventually be written about the WikiLeaks story.

  • WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy

    David Leigh and Luke Harding

    Guardian Books, pp. 340

  • Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World’s Most Dangerous Website

    Daniel Domscheit-Berg, with Tina Klopp

    Cape, pp. 282

A monsoon of literature will eventually be written about the WikiLeaks story. Here are two of the first droplets. David Leigh and Luke Harding have delivered an enjoyable account of the Guardian’s fraught dealings with Julian Assange and the publication of the secret US cables. The WikiLeaks founder comes across as a shadowy, manipulative character with the habits of a tramp and the brain of a chess grandmaster.

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