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Hager Inspires Hollywood Thriller?
Nicky Hager's The Hollow Men inspired both a stage play and a documentary but up until now his first, and in journalistic terms far more impressive work, Secret and Lies has failed to inspire fictionalised accounts. The Echelon Conspiracy starring, among others Martin Sheen and Shane West, if not strictly based on Nicky's book at least cites his work on the Echelon spy network on its official website.
If the trailer's anything to go by The Echelon Conspiracy is run-of-the-mill Hollywood crap - but if it sparks interest in Secret and Lies and the Echelon spy network Nicky played a key role in exposing it can't be all bad.
The filmmakers may link to this article by Nicky, but the first he heard of the film was when the Scoop Review of Books sent him a link to the trailer.
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