Description
| Product ID: | 9780008308384 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Kleptopia |
| Subtitle: | How Dirty Money is Conquering the World |
| Authors: | Author: Tom Burgis |
| Page Count: | 336 |
| Subjects: | Corporate crime / white-collar crime, Corporate crime, Economic and financial crises and disasters, Economic & financial crises & disasters, Europe, c 2000 to c 2010, c 2010 to c 2020 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘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 MONBIOT, GUARDIANAN ECONOMIST AND WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘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 MONBIOT, GUARDIANAN ECONOMIST AND WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020‘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, bestselling author of THE WORLD AS IT ISIn 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. |
| Imprint Name: | William Collins |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-07-08 |
