Download or read book Blank Check written by Tim Weiner and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 1990-09-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles, this is a thorough, astonishing expose of the "Black Budget"--a 36-billion-dollar cache used by the Pentagon to fund its own agenda of top-secret weapons and wars.