Custom Maid War for New World Disorder: In Guns We Trust [Paperback]

Peter de Krassel (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 2005

Custom Maid War is chock full of heretofore undisclosed facts from World War I, the Cold War, Korean War, Vietnam War, Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, and explores in detail America's nuclear and cyber options in future potential war swith either Iran or China. Custom Maid War spells out why the CIA and FBI can't keep up with cyberterrorists. Even with all the billions of dollars the U.S. spends on security, its out-of-date intelligence systems are making the Internet "the terrorists most fertile recruiting ground and most potent global terror vehicle." The book explains the startling realities of why the government cannot break the encryption technology terrorists use to hide their communications, fund their operations and hack into U.S. networks. Most of the federal security agencies were given failing grades on cybersecurity. America could be the target of a "digital Pearl Harbor" if we don't invent a tighter Internet Security. The biggest threat to America, according to the author, Peter de Krassel, is the environment. Hurricane Katrina confirmed his concern several months after the book was published. A call to political arms if America is to survive and continue to guide in the 21st century.

Editorial Reviews

Review

An anecdotal and passionate polemic on modern history. -- Stuart Wolfendale, Columnist, The Standard

Custom Maid War reads like a journalistic account of Heart of Darkness. -- Brandon Royal, The Little Red Writing Book

This book is dynamite. One of the best I've read. I couldn't put it down. -- Erskine Overnight, USA Radio Network

About the Author

Peter Geoffrey de Krassel has been professionally involved in representing American and Chinese corporate business interests in their efforts to bridge the gap between Eastern and Western cultures. He has been a resident of Hong Kong, Manila and Shanghai since 1989. He was married to a Shanghainese-born wife with whom he has a son born in Hong Kong. He lived with his first American-born wife in Los Angeles with their grown children before moving to Asia. As chief executive officer of a strategic consultancy, he has traveled extensively throughout Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas. He is the founder of trade publications focused on the cable and satellite business. He has also published and edited numerous articles on the media in Asia. His adolescence was spent traveling to areas of international conflict with his father David de Krassel, who was a correspondent with the BBC. His formal education took place mainly in Switzerland, Cyprus and Israel. After traveling to New York aboard the liner "Peace" in 1964, de Krassel attended CCNY and worked as a photographer before moving to the West Coast where he studied political science. An honors graduate from the California State University system in comparative governments of the Middle East and Sino-Soviet Communism in 1968, he worked as a photographer at the Democratic National Convention that year in Chicago where he started law school before moving to San Francisco where he completed his law degree with honors in 1971. He practiced law with a top national firm specializing in banking and secured transactions, and became involved with partisan politics and fund-raising on a national level before concentrating on international business and political expediting with his own firm Counselors At Large. He resigned as the firm's CEO in 1998 to spend more time with his family and to explore the meaning of relationships and life.

Product Details

• Paperback: 250 pages
• Publisher: CAL Books (August 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9889766647
• ISBN-13: 978-9889766641
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,697,941 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)