Brace for controversy: Edward Snowden has written a memoir

Enlarge / This is going to go down on your permanent record. (credit: McMillan Publishers)

Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee and National Security Agency contractor who spilled some of the deepest secrets of the US government's electronic surveillance operations, has written a memoir. Permanent Record, published by MacMillan Publishers' imprint Metropolitan Books, will go on sale on September 17, and it's now available for pre-orders-as Snowden himself announced via his Twitter account today.

Snowden's memoir will be released simultaneously in more than 20 countries, and pre-orders are available in the US, the United Kingdom, and Germany. According to a Metropolitan spokesperson, "In Permanent Record, [Snowden] tells his story for the very first time, bringing the reader along as he helps to create [NSA's] system of mass surveillance, and then experiences the crisis of conscience that led him to try to bring it down."

In a statement on the book, MacMillan CEO John Sargent said:

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