Tom Burgis

Kleptopia (eBook, ePUB)

How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year • An Economist Book of the Year

A must-read for anyone wanting to better understand what has already happened here in America and what lies ahead if Trump is reelected in November.... A magisterial account of the money and violence behind the world's most powerful dictatorships. Washington Post

In this shocking, meticulously reported work of narrative nonfiction, an award-winning investigative journalist exposes capitalism's monsterglobal kleptocracyand reveals how it is corrupting the world around us.

They are everywhere, the thieves and their people. Masters of secrecy. Until now we have detected their presence only by what they leave behind. 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.

They have amassed more money than most countries. But what they are really stealing is power.

In this real-life thriller packed with jaw-dropping revelations, award-winning investigative journalist Tom Burgis weaves together four stories that reveal a terrifying global web of corruption: the troublemaker from Basingstoke who stumbles on the secrets of a Swiss bank, the ex-Soviet billionaire constructing a private empire, the righteous Canadian lawyer with a mysterious client, and the Brooklyn crook protected by the CIA.

Glimpses of this shadowy world have emerged over the years. In Kleptopia, Burgis connects the dots. He follows the dirty money that is flooding the global economy, emboldening dictators, and poisoning democracies. From the Kremlin to Beijing, Harare to Riyadh, Paris to the White House, the trail shows something even more sinister: the thieves are uniting. And the human cost will be great.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 465
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780063236134
• Artikelnr.: 62318661

Autorenporträt

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.

Rezensionen

'A ghastly and very important story'
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

'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'
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'
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

'Read Kleptopia now. There is no time to lose ... Tom Burgis demonstrates that money does indeed stink - and shows how to follow its scent'
Roberto Saviano

'A powerful, appalling, and stunningly reported exposé ... It reads like fiction, but unfortunately is all too true: Burgis names names, and follows the money, right into the Trump White House ... Shows how dark money has grown from a national problem into an international scourge'
Jane Mayer

'Reveals exactly why in the last thirty years organised crime and financial capitalism have fused to create a force of such power that no government or leader is free from the pressure it is able to apply ... When you pick this book up, you won't be able to put it down'
Misha Glenny