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    "description": "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.<br></br><br></br>\"Crime in Progress untangles one of the great mysteries of the Trump era-the full story of  the Steele dossier-and provides a fascinating insight into the  investigatory mind at work.\"-Jeffrey Toobin<br></br><br></br>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.<br></br><br></br>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.<br></br><br></br>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 U.S. 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 ten-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.<br></br><br></br>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.",
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