Kleptopia : how dirty money is conquering the world / Tom Burgis.
Material type:
TextPublisher: London : William Collins, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 480 pages ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780008308384
- 364.1 BUR 23
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | Moylish Library Main Collection | 364.1 BUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39002100605287 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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, GUARDIAN
AN 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 IS
In 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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-423) and index.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
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.