The Great Heist: China’s Epic Campaign to Steal America’s Secrets

Description

Title: The Great Heist: China’s Epic Campaign to Steal America’s Secrets
Author: David R. Shedd and Andrew Badger
Publisher: Harper / HarperCollins Publishers Inc, 2026
Format: Hardback
Language: English
ISBN-13: 9780063451834

The Great Heist by David R. Shedd and Andrew Badger is a hardback nonfiction book about China’s campaign to acquire American intellectual property, technology, data, and strategic secrets. It examines how state-directed espionage, cyber operations, industrial theft, and human intelligence have shaped the modern competition between China and the United States.

Drawing on intelligence, policy, corporate security, and geopolitical perspectives, the book argues that technology theft has played a major role in China’s rise as a global power. It explores risks across defence, business, innovation, national security, and international relations.

This is a strong choice for readers interested in geopolitics, China-US relations, intelligence studies, cybersecurity, economic competition, and modern political strategy. Its subject matter will appeal to serious nonfiction readers who want to understand how power is contested beyond traditional warfare.