Crime in Progress

Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump

By: Glenn Simpson, Peter Fritsch

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER

“I’ve read kind of all the books on this subject...and this is the one you want to read.” (Rachel Maddow)

Before Ukraine, before impeachment: This is the never-before-told inside story of the high-stakes, four-year-long investigation into Donald Trump’s Russia ties - culminating in the Steele dossier, and sparking the Mueller report - from the founders of political opposition research company Fusion GPS.

Fusion GPS was founded in 2010 by Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, two former reporters at The Wall Street Journal who decided to abandon the struggling news business and use their reporting skills to conduct open-source investigations for businesses and law firms - and opposition research for political candidates. In the fall of 2015, they were hired to look into the finances of Donald Trump.

What began as a march through a mind-boggling trove of lawsuits, bankruptcies, and sketchy overseas projects soon took a darker turn: The deeper Fusion dug, the more it began to notice names that Simpson and Fritsch had come across during their days covering Russian corruption - and the clearer it became that the focus of Fusion’s research going forward would be Trump’s entanglements with Russia.

To help them make sense of what they were seeing, Simpson and Fritsch engaged the services of a former British intelligence agent and Russia expert named Christopher Steele. He would produce a series of memos - which collectively became known as the Steele dossier - that raised deeply alarming questions about the nature of Trump’s ties to a hostile foreign power. Those memos made their way to US intelligence agencies, and then to President Barack Obama and President-elect Trump. On January 10, 2017, the Steele dossier broke into public view, and the Trump-Russia story reached escape velocity. At the time, Fusion GPS was just a 10-person consulting firm tucked away above a Starbucks near Dupont Circle, but it would soon be thrust into the center of the biggest news story on the planet - a story that would lead to accusations of witch hunts, a relentless campaign of persecution by congressional Republicans, bizarre conspiracy theories, lawsuits by Russian oligarchs, and the Mueller report.

In Crime in Progress, Simpson and Fritsch tell their story for the first time - a tale of the high-stakes pursuit of one of the biggest, most important stories of our time - no matter the costs.

©2019 Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch (P)2019 Random House Audio

Look at both sides to understand.

Interesting book! As the facts open up it's nice to listen to both views.

enjoy your read!

Amazing

Loved it so much I listened to it twice. I really enjoyed how in chronological order, the way it presented and illuminated details that I knew with what I didn't know. Well worth it.

An absolute must read!!

An absolute must read if you care about our democracy and how Russia has, and is, deeply corrupting our political process. It is not a conspiracy theory!
Plus it’s just interesting to hear/read this clearly presented back story of Russian influence in our elections.
This book is a big “Heads-Up” for America.

Every American should listen/read this book.

It's incredible what the Republican party has become. I'm truly worried for children's future in this country if they continue down this path.

I've read 15 Books on this Subject. This is TOP!

Thank You Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch for your brilliant, sustained and honest/credible/heroic efforts to explain the story of Fusion GPS and the Steele. Rachel Maddow gave you a fantastic review that speaks a lot.

For anyone who believes in the Upside Down/Alternative Reality of Republicans, please read this book. I dare you.

danger

very interesting and timely. it is amazing the risks some people are willing to face to protect others.

Great account of the truth

A Nation without truth will crumble. Hopefully this book will help OurNnation to see the truth of what happened in the 2016 election, So the healing process can begin.

In-depth review of Fusion GPS' oppo research '16

After reading about the efforts in multiple other excellent books on Trump's machinations with Russia, the Saudis, the UAE, Turkey, Egypt and Israel, this book offers great insights into what actually transpired within Fusion GPS, as they conducted opposition research into Trump & his business operations 1st for Republicans and then for Democrats, once Trump became the GOP's nominee. Eye-opening, relatable, & very well written!

Fascinating.

Although a lot is known, this makes the ongoing story more complete. Now how to get this to the uninformed......

Must Read!

Very insightful book. I hope Fusion GPS keeps up with what they've started. They're drive for the truth is incredibly important.