cover image Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget

Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget

Tim Weiner. Grand Central Publishing, $21.99 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-446-39275-4

The origin, growth and uses of the Pentagon's secret treasury are detailed here--Weiner examines the Stealth bomber, the MILSTAR satellite system and a virtual hidden army within the U.S. Army. ``This hard-hitting expose of power out of control . . . is well documented,'' said PW. ``It reveals how the executive office, the Pentagon and the CIA have squandered billions of dollars.'' (July)