[DECEMBER DRAFT--- 287 pages] THE SNOWDEN AFFAIR A Spy Story in Six Parts By Edward Jay Epstein CONTENTS PROLOGUE On the Snowden Trail: Hong Kong 2014 PART ONE The Intelligence Crisis Chapter One The Great Divide Chapter Two The Crime Scene Investigation PART TWO Snowden’s Arc Chapter Three Tinker Chapter Four Secret Agent Chapter Five Contractor Chapter Six Thief Chapter Seven Crossing the Rubicon Chapter Eight Hacktavist Chapter Nine String-Puller Chapter Ten Raider of the Inner Sanctum Chapter Eleven Escape Artist Chapter Twelve Whistle Blower Chapter Thirteen Enter Assange Chapter Fourteen Fugitive PART THREE The Counterintelligence Conundrum Chapter Fifteen Did Snowden Act Alone Chapter Sixteen The Question of When Chapter Seventeen The Keys to the Kingdom Are Missing Chapter Eighteen The Unheeded Warning PART FOUR The Game of Nation Chapter Nineteen The Rise of the NSA Chapter Twenty Back Door In Chapter Twenty-One The Russians Are Coming Chapter Twenty-Two The Chinese Puzzle Chapter Twenty-Three The Pawn in the Game PART FIVE WALKING THE CAT BACK Chapter Twenty-Four Dinner with Oliver Stone Chapter Twenty-Five Vanishing Act Chapter Twenty-Six through the Looking Glass Chapter Twenty-Seven the Handler PART SIX