Enemy of The State

Tudor England was a place of religious upheaval and uncertainty, as the Catholic church was replaced by the Church of England, with Henry VIII at its head. When Henry VIII passed through Canterbury in 1532, a young woman named Elizabeth Barton, known as the Holy Maid of Kent and widely revered as a visionary, warned him that he was 'so abominable in the sight of God that he was not worthy to tread on hallowed ground'. Two years later she was executed as an enemy of the state, but she would not be the last to be punished for her faith – the summer of 1535 would see many others suffer the same fate.

Twenty years on from the invention of the world wide web, this major new series takes stock of its profound impact – how, for better and for worse, the digital revolution is reshaping our lives.

Slowly-gripping, bleak study of electronic surveillance and the threat of new technologies, examined through the private, internalized life of Harry Caul, a lonely and detached expert "bugger". The conspiracy thriller is an effective character study that exposes the emerging conscience of an estranged eavesdropper.

Harry Caul, un especialista en vigilancia y sistemas de seguridad cuyo prestigio es reconocido por sus colegas de todo el país, recibe el encargo por parte de un magnate de investigar a su joven esposa. Deberá escuchar sus conversaciones con uno de sus empleados del que parece estar enamorada. La misión, para un experto de su categoría, resulta a primera vista inexplicable ya que la pareja no ofrece ningún interés fuera de lo corriente. Sin embargo, cuando Harry da por finalizado su trabajo, advierte que algo extraño se oculta tras la banalidad que ha estado investigando.

What’s your impression of the CIA? A bumbling agency that can’t protect its own spies? A rogue organization prone to covert operations and assassinations? Or a dedicated public service that advances the interests of the United States?