{"product_id":"kleptopia-how-dirty-money-is-conquering-the-world-isbn-9780062883650","title":"Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNotable Book of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e • \u003c\/em\u003eAn\u003cem\u003e Economist \u003c\/em\u003eBook of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“A must-read for anyone wanting to better understand what\u003cbr\u003ehas already happened here in America and what lies ahead if Trump is reelected\u003cbr\u003ein November…. A magisterial account of the money and violence behind the\u003cbr\u003eworld’s most powerful dictatorships.” –\u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this shocking, meticulously reported work of narrative nonfiction, an award-winning investigative journalist exposes “capitalism’s monster”—global kleptocracy—and reveals how it is corrupting the world around us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey are everywhere, the thieves and their people. Masters\u003cbr\u003eof secrecy. Until now we have detected their presence only by what they leave\u003cbr\u003ebehind. A body in a burned-out Audi. Workers riddled with bullets in the Kazakh\u003cbr\u003eDesert. A rigged election in Zimbabwe. A British banker silenced and humiliated\u003cbr\u003efor trying to expose the truth about the City of London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey have amassed more money than most countries. But what\u003cbr\u003ethey are really stealing is power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this real-life thriller packed with jaw-dropping\u003cbr\u003erevelations, award-winning investigative journalist Tom Burgis weaves together\u003cbr\u003efour stories that reveal a terrifying global web of corruption: the\u003cbr\u003etroublemaker from Basingstoke who stumbles on the secrets of a Swiss bank, the\u003cbr\u003eex-Soviet billionaire constructing a private empire, the righteous Canadian\u003cbr\u003elawyer with a mysterious client, and the Brooklyn crook protected by the CIA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlimpses of this shadowy world have emerged over the years.\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eKleptopia\u003c\/em\u003e, Burgis connects the dots. He follows the dirty money that\u003cbr\u003eis flooding the global economy, emboldening dictators, and poisoning\u003cbr\u003edemocracies. From the Kremlin to Beijing, Harare to Riyadh, Paris to the White\u003cbr\u003eHouse, the trail shows something even more sinister: the thieves are uniting.\u003cbr\u003eAnd the human cost will be great.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Corruption on a grand scale is fantastically complicated and tough to write about… \u003cem\u003eKleptopia\u003c\/em\u003e does the job brilliantly. Burgis spins his tale of global corruption from the ground up, [beginning] with a hero straight out of a John le Carré novel…\u003cem\u003eKleptopia\u003c\/em\u003e is wonderfully if grimly entertaining.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Compelling. . . .  The many strands in this complex global story are elegantly woven together and delivered in a form that makes the technicalities of finance accessible to the non-expert. . . . \u003cem\u003eKleptopia \u003c\/em\u003eilluminates the legalised secrecy around the hubs of big money and how integral dirty money is to political power.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Burgis is a strong storyteller. We can visualize diamonds smuggled in a toothpaste tube for Swiss banking clients. We see a lawyer taking SIM cards with important contacts from her oligarch client and concealing them in a candy wrapper as he fled one snowy night on a private plane. . . .  Meticulously reported. . . . A must-read for anyone wanting to better understand what has already happened here in America. ”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It is hard to write about international corruption in an accessible and colourful way, while retaining an urgent sense of moral condemnation. This book beautifully captures both the murkiness and turpitude involved. Its ultimate theme—the intersection of politics and personal enrichment—is one of the most important stories of the age.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEconomist Best Books of the Year citation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Burgis’s study of dark global realities casts a wide net, from Washington to Moscow, Kazakhstan and the Congo . . .  [Burgis is] an impressive investigator. . . .  A ghastly and very important story.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A meticulously reported piece of investigative journalism … written in the style of a fast-paced thriller. . . . A page-turner that lifts the lid on the murky world in which power is turned into money and money into power.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Impressively researched and disturbing.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Depicts an unsavory coalition of corrupt strongmen, artful criminals, and rapacious élites who, abetted by a network of accountants, lawyers, and other professional facilitators, have managed to pillage money on a grand scale and hide it abroad….The monetization of public office, Burgis believes, is no longer an aberration but often the very “purpose of seeking that office.” The techniques of financial obfuscation have grown so sophisticated that theft is easy, and, for the thief who hires the right advisers, impunity is all but assured.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eKleptopia\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful, appalling, and stunningly-reported expose of the global corruption that runs like an underground river from the world's darkest and dirtiest dictatorships through some of the planet's richest banks and governments. It reads like fiction, but unfortunately is all too true: Burgis names names, and follows the money, right into the Trump White House, among other high places. His narrative shows how dark money has grown from a national problem into an international scourge.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJane Mayer, author of Dark Money\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Read \u003cem\u003eKleptopia\u003c\/em\u003e now. There is no time to lose. Read it now to understand that the struggle between dirty money and clean money has been won by dirty money. Tom Burgis demonstrates that money does indeed stink — and shows in \u003cem\u003eKleptopia\u003c\/em\u003e how to follow its scent.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoberto Saviano, author of Gomorrah\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Simultaneously clear, elegant and engaging, \u003cem\u003eKleptopia\u003c\/em\u003e pulls together several seemingly disparate strands in an assured, daring piece of story-telling. In the process, Tom Burgis reveals exactly how in the last thirty years organized 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. This is Jane Mayer's \u003cem\u003eDark Money\u003c\/em\u003e on a global scale. 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