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....
And the human cost will be great..
From the Kremlin to Beijing, Harare to Riyadh, Paris to the White House, the trail shows something even more sinister: the thieves are uniting.
He follows the dirty money that is flooding the global economy, emboldening dictators, and poisoning democracies.
In Kleptopia, Burgis connects the dots.
Glimpses of this shadowy world have emerged over the years.
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.
But what they are really stealing is power.
They have amassed more money than most countries.
A British banker silenced and humiliated for trying to expose the truth about the City of London.
A rigged election in Zimbabwe.
Workers riddled with bullets in the Kazakh Desert.
A body in a burned-out Audi.
Until now we have detected their presence only by what they leave behind.
Masters of secrecy.
They are everywhere, the thieves and their people. - 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.
A magisterial account of the money and violence behind the world\'s most powerful dictatorships.
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...
