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Tom Burgis - Kleptopia (2nd Hand Paperback)
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Synopsis
Subtitled : How Dirty Money is Conquering the World.
The Economist & The Washington Post Book of The Year, 2020 & Sunday Times Bestseller.
In this real-life thriller packed with jaw-dropping revelations, award-winning investigative journalist Tom Burgis reveals a terrifying global web of kleptocracy and corruption.
Kleptopia follows the dirty money that is flooding the global economy, emboldening dictators, enriching oligarchs and poisoning democracies. From the Kremlin to Beijing, Harare to Riyadh, London to the Trump White House, it shows how the thieves are uniting - and the terrible human cost.
A body in a burned-out Audi. Workers riddled with bullets in the Kazakh desert. A rigged election in Zimbabwe. A British banker silenced and humiliated for trying to expose the truth about the City of London - the world’s piggy bank for blood money.
Riveting, horrifying and written like fiction, this book shows that while we are looking the other way, all that we hold most dear is being stolen.
Details
- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : Very Good
- Category : Non-Fiction - Economics, Business & Money
- Published : 2020 (This Edition 2021 - William Collins)
- ISBN : 9780008308384
- SKU : B003195
- PPC : SP300gm
- RRP : £9.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
‘If you think the UK isn't corrupt, you haven't looked hard enough . . . This terrifying book follows a global current of dirty money, and the murders and kidnappings required to sustain it’ - George Monboit, The Guardian.
‘When you pick this book up, you won’t be able to put it down’ - Misha Glenny, author of McMafia.
‘Gripping, disturbing and deeply reported’ - Ben Rhodes, author of The World As It Is.
‘A ghastly and very important story’ - The Guardian.
‘A meticulously reported piece of investigative journalism written in the style of a fast-paced thriller. Gripping . . . Kleptopia is not a far away republic in central Asia; it is all around us’ - The Times.
‘I don’t do book reviews. But I am reading Kleptopia very slowly as I have to keep picking my jaw up off the floor . . . Fascinating. Terrifying’ - Paul Lewis, BBC Moneybox.
‘I might not have read, or even heard of Tom Burgis if ENRC hadn’t sued. Now I’m in. #Kleptopia’ - Hugh Laurie.
‘A must-read. A magisterial account of the money and violence behind the world’s most powerful dictatorships . . . Meticulously reported’ - The Washington Post.
‘The architects of our national security would do well to bring to their meetings a well-thumbed copy . . . It unpicks the filthy flipside of globalisation . . . Incendiary’ - Edward Lucas, The Times.
‘Does the job brilliantly . . . with a hero straight out of a John le Carré novel. Wonderfully if grimly entertaining’ - The Economist.
‘His landmark book he lays bare what we need to know, and act upon . . . Burgis provides us with the terrifying evidence. Read it and act’ - Jon Snow.
The Author
Tom Burgis is an investigations correspondent at the Financial Times. He has reported from more than forty countries, won major journalism awards in the US and Asia and been shortlisted for eight others, including twice at the British Press Awards. His critically acclaimed book The Looting Machine, about the modern plundering of Africa, won an Overseas Press Club of America award.