{"product_id":"the-hour-of-the-predator-isbn-9781805680161","title":"The Hour of the Predator","description":"\u003cb\u003eA CHILLING ASSESSMENT OF THE DISINTEGRATING WORLD ORDER: the rise of autocratic regimes, erosion of traditional diplomacy, and growing influence of tech billionaires and unregulated AI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The one book you absolutely need to read in order to understand current politics\"  — Anne Applebaum, author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller \u003ci\u003eAutocracy, Inc.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlending the internationally bestselling author’s personal insight with startling historical comparisons to the days of Machiavelli and the Spanish conquest of Mexico, Giuliano Da Empoli’s \u003ci\u003eThe Hour of the Predator\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely and incisive examination of the shifting power dynamics in global politics, where traditional government institutions find themselves increasingly outmatched by technology tycoons and autocratic strongmen: geopolitical predators who shape the world through brute force, ceaseless deception, and chaotic disruption.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on his experience as a political advisor to a former Italian Prime Minister, Da Empoli takes the reader on an eye-opening journey around the international political circuit—from New York to Riyadh, and from the United Nations to Mohammed bin Salman’s Ritz-Carlton— and through the looking glass to a world of ruthless power struggles, where the tech lords already seem to inhabit another world and AI is already out of control.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Hour of the Predator\u003c\/i\u003e is the latest book from the internationally bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Wizard of the Kremlin\u003c\/i\u003e, which has been translated into thirty-five languages and is now being adapted for a major movie by Olivier Assayas starring Jude Law as Vladimir Putin.Table of Contents:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew York, September 2024\u003cbr\u003eFlorence, March 2012\u003cbr\u003eRiyadh, November 2024\u003cbr\u003eNew York, September 2024\u003cbr\u003eWashington, D.C., November 2024\u003cbr\u003eChicago, November 2017\u003cbr\u003eMontreal, September 2024\u003cbr\u003eParis, September 1931\u003cbr\u003eBerlin, December 2024\u003cbr\u003eRome, October 1998\u003cbr\u003eLisbon, May 2023\u003cbr\u003eLieusaint, December 2024\"The one book you absolutely need to read in order to understand current politics.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e —Anne Applebaum, author of \u003ci\u003eAutocracy, Inc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Describes both the wolves who run governments and those who run tech companies.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e—David Brooks, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"An impassioned, dazzling slim volume about the state of the world.... This is a sharply written and provocative book, filled with witty asides and gallows humour.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Da Empoli issues a warning from history, that the Borgia poisoners are back as tech bros. Brilliant, acidly witty, terrifying.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—John Sweeney, author of \u003ci\u003eKiller in the Kremlin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Immensely readable, mordantly ironic and unsparing.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e—Michael Ignatieff\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An Italian-Swiss writer spent years in the corridors of power observing what he sees as the emergence of a new cadre of strongmen in politics and technology, who feed off each other and share a love of disruption. He skewers them with sardonic humour.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Economist\u003c\/i\u003e, Best Books of 2025 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There is plenty that is irresistible about \u003ci\u003eThe Hour of the Predator\u003c\/i\u003e. Mr da Empoli’s experiences at the United Nations in New York, the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh and on stage with Mr Altman provide vignettes of the Borgian power grab that he relates with exquisite detachment.... Read Mr da Empoli’s book, if only to understand how fundamentally the balance of power in the world may be changing.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Economist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A stylish and coolly sceptical study of power politics in an age of disorder... Apocalyptic in tone (there is the obligatory section on Machiavelli), it is also smartly observed and very funny.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew Statesman, \u003c\/i\u003eBooks of the Year 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A sharply observed work of political philosophy, with the warning that, in this world, the big ones eat the little ones.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A series of vignettes and meditations on the upending of the international order... A gorgeous though alarming piece of writing.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Sunday Times,\u003c\/i\u003e Current Affairs Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As Trump’s American critics and admirers alike struggle to understand him in terms of 20th-century right-wing traditions or Jacksonian strands in American history, da Empoli offers a useful alternative.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Semafor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Machiavelli's \u003ci\u003eThe Prince\u003c\/i\u003e for our times.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—The Spectator\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Essential reading for Europe's political elite.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Politico\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The short and terrifying true story of the beastly forces dominating our time, where vulgar strongmen, ferocious autocrats, transhuman technologists, and libertarian tyrants dressed in Star Trek fashion are redefining the international order.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eAir Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Hour of the Predator \u003c\/i\u003emay be little, but it is fierce... While others have written of tech’s slow boiling of democracy’s frog, Da Empoli’s take is fresh, personal, and as bracing as it is bleak.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—The Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As must-read as any book can be this year.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Big Issue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Cultured and perceptive.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eIrish Independent\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Shows you the rotting bones of the liberal order and the silhouettes of the predators that have learned to live through it.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—David Patrikarakos, \u003ci\u003eUnherd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eGiuliano da Empoli\u003c\/b\u003e is an Italian and Swiss writer and political scientist living in France. He was once a senior advisor to Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. His debut novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Wizard of the Kremlin,\u003c\/i\u003e has sold more than half a million copies in France, where it also won the Grand Prix du Roman and was a finalist for the Goncourt Prize. It has since gone on to become an international bestseller, being translated into thirty-five languages across the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSam Taylor \u003c\/b\u003eis a British prizewinning translator, author and former journalist. His translations include \u003ci\u003eHHhH \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCivilisations \u003c\/i\u003eby Laurent Binet, \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Door of No Return\u003c\/i\u003e by David Diop, \u003ci\u003eThe Truth about the Harry Quebert \u003c\/i\u003eAffair by Joël Dicker and \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery of Henri Pick\u003c\/i\u003e by David Foenkinos. 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