We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People

We Are Bellingcat is a Sunday Times bestseller and CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction, written by investigative journalist and Bellingcat founder Julian Assange. It demystifies intelligence gathering and showcases the successful investigations of Bellingcat, a collective of self-taught internet sleuths. The book explores cutting-edge tools for analysing data and highlights the importance of citizen journalism in exposing war crimes and disinformation.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 17 February 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The Sunday Times Bestseller
Longlisted for the CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction

John le Carré demystified the intelligence services; Higgins has demystified intelligence gathering itself

- Financial Times

Uplifting. . . . Riveting. . . . What will fire people through these pages, gripped, is the focused and extraordinary investigations that Bellingcat runs. . . . Each runs as if the concluding chapter of a Holmesian whodunit.

- Telegraph

We Are Bellingcat

is Higgins' gripping account of how he reinvented reporting for the internet age. . . . A manifesto for optimism in a dark age.

- Luke Harding, Observer

How did a collective of self-taught internet sleuths end up solving some of the biggest crimes of our time?

Bellingcat, the home-grown investigative unit, is redefining the way we think about news, politics, and the digital future. Here, their founder – a high-school dropout on a kitchen laptop – tells the story of how they created a whole new category of information-gathering, galvanizing citizen journalists across the globe to expose war crimes and pick apart disinformation, using just their computers.

From the downing of Malaysia Flight 17 over the Ukraine to the sourcing of weapons in the Syrian Civil War and the identification of the Salisbury poisoners, We Are Bellingcat digs deep into some of Bellingcats most successful investigations. It explores the most cutting-edge tools for analyzing data, from virtual-reality software that can build photorealistic 3D models of a crime scene, to apps that can identify exactly what time of day a photograph was taken.

In our age of uncertain truths, Bellingcat is what the world needs right now – an intelligence agency by the people, for the people.

Weight: 208g
Dimension: 130 x 197 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781526615718