Big Intel makes #1 on Amazon’s intelligence & espionage bestseller list on first day of release

Big Intel got off to a strong start on the first day of its release. Within hours, the Kindle and Audible editions shot to #1 on Amazon’s Bestseller list for new books on Intelligence and Espionage.

Center for Security Policy Senior Analyst for Strategy J. Michael Waller authored Big Intel, which describes how the CIA and FBI embraced critical theory to push Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and other forms of wokeness.

The hardcover edition made the top 100 bestsellers on Amazon’s Political Intelligence and Political Conservatism & Liberalism lists on the January 16 release date.

Big Intel was the only title to rank three times at as a Political Intelligence bestseller. The Audible edition placed at #19, hardcover at #27, and Kindle at #44.

It was also the only title with three rankings on the Political Conservatism & Liberalism bestseller list.

The book contains 383 pages of text plus 41 pages of footnotes.

“Michael Waller earned well-deserved credibility as a scholar-investigator of the counterintelligence and intelligence craft with his Secret Empire: The KGB in Russia Today,” a 1994 academic work that anticipated the rise of a KGB gangster-state in Russia, said John J. Dziak, a former senior intelligence official at the Department of Defense.

“Now Waller has turned his scholarly focus on the security bureaucracies closer to home: the U.S. intelligence community. The self-referential counterintelligence/intelligence bureaucracies are not confined merely to the eastern marches of Western civilization,” Dziak, a former professor at Georgetown and George Washington University, said. “I’ll venture that Waller’s earlier probe of the counterintelligence state’s reincarnation in post-Soviet Russia led him to this unsettling opus on that state’s appearance here in America today.”

Apart from a few podcasts and radio interviews, only marketing for the book to date was the author’s posts on Twitter/X, which he attached to the accounts of FBI headquarters and all 56 FBI field offices.

“I would like to thank the FBI for inadvertently serving as a unique marketing platform for the book that describes how it went woke,” Waller said.