Kleptopia
How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
Published on 3. September 2020
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-00-830834-6 (ISBN)
Description
AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020
A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020
'If you think the UK isn't corrupt, you haven't looked hard enough ... This new and terrifying book follows a global current of dirty money, and the murders and kidnappings required to sustain it' GEORGE MONBIOT, GUARDIAN
'When you pick this book up, you won't be able to put it down' MISHA GLENNY, author of MCMAFIA
'Combines forensic investigative journalism with the narrative propulsion of a literary thriller. The result is a masterful, gripping read that is all the more disturbing because it's true' NATHAN FILER, bestselling author of THE SHOCK OF THE FALL
'Gripping, disturbing and deeply reported' BEN RHODES, bestselling author of THE WORLD AS IT IS
In this real-life thriller packed with jaw-dropping revelations, award-winning investigative journalist Tom Burgis reveals a terrifying global web of corruption.
Kleptopia 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 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.
A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020
'If you think the UK isn't corrupt, you haven't looked hard enough ... This new and terrifying book follows a global current of dirty money, and the murders and kidnappings required to sustain it' GEORGE MONBIOT, GUARDIAN
'When you pick this book up, you won't be able to put it down' MISHA GLENNY, author of MCMAFIA
'Combines forensic investigative journalism with the narrative propulsion of a literary thriller. The result is a masterful, gripping read that is all the more disturbing because it's true' NATHAN FILER, bestselling author of THE SHOCK OF THE FALL
'Gripping, disturbing and deeply reported' BEN RHODES, bestselling author of THE WORLD AS IT IS
In this real-life thriller packed with jaw-dropping revelations, award-winning investigative journalist Tom Burgis reveals a terrifying global web of corruption.
Kleptopia 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 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.
Reviews / Votes
'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
'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 ... 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 Carre 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 expose ... 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
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 40 mm
Weight
690 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-00-830834-6 (9780008308346)
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09/2020
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Person
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.