Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the WorldHarperCollins, 08.09.2020 - 464 Seiten 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 monster”—global kleptocracy—and 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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Tunnels Cheapside February 2008 | |
The Dual State Moscow February 2008 | |
Sasha and Seva St Jamess March 2013 | |
The Loving Cup Canary Wharf February 2013 | |
The Presumption of Regularity Rome May 2013 | |
A Legit Shithole Cincinnati August 2013 | |
Risk Appetite Canary Wharf August 2013 | |
Doubles Old Billingsgate February 2014 | |
The System Canary Wharf June 2014 | |
Metamorphosis | |
Silhouette Cheapside July 2008 | |
Mr Billy Harare September 2008 | |
Shutdown Cheapside September 2008 | |
The Fallen Oligarch Astana January 2009 | |
Top Secret London April 2009 | |
Paying Your Dues Pretoria September 2009 | |
The Informant Brooklyn October 2009 | |
The Real London May 2010 | |
Chrysalis | |
Beginnings London December 2010 | |
Big Yellow Finchley February 2011 | |
Watchdogs London March 2011 | |
The Savarona London May 2011 | |
Off the Books Rudny May 2011 | |
Gods Kingdom St Pauls October 2011 | |
Fear Zhanaozen December 2011 | |
Stability Cambridge July 2012 | |
Too Big to Jail London September 2012 | |
Conquest Eastern Ukraine August 2014 | |
Privacy Kensington September 2014 | |
The Bridge Moscow February 2015 | |
His Footprints Are Not Found Colchester September 2015 | |
Winners Manhattan November 2016 | |
Saint or Sinner Paris December 2016 | |
The Future Colchester December 2016 | |
The Man With No Past Washington January 2017 | |
Its Over Kensington June 2017 | |
The Story You Choose to Tell Montreal August 2017 | |
Alternative Facts London March 2019 | |
Quid Pro Quo Washington July 2019 | |
Normal Business Worldwide 2020 | |
Acknowledgements | |
Index | |
About the Author | |