Kleptopia

How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World

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<p><strong>A </strong><strong><em>Washington Post </em></strong><strong>Notable Book of the Year</strong><strong><em> • </em>An<em> Economist </em>Book of the Year</strong></p><p><strong>Now With a New Afterword</strong></p><p><strong>“A must-read for anyone wanting to better understand what<br>has already happened here in America and what lies ahead if Trump is reelected<br>in November…. A magisterial account of the money and violence behind the<br>world’s most powerful dictatorships.” –<em>Washington Post</em></strong></p><p>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.</p><p>They are everywhere, the thieves and their people. Masters<br>of secrecy. Until now we have detected their presence only by what they leave<br>behind. A body in a burned-out Audi. Workers riddled with bullets in the Kazakh<br>Desert. A rigged election in Zimbabwe. A British banker silenced and humiliated<br>for trying to expose the truth about the City of London.</p><p>They have amassed more money than most countries. But what<br>they are really stealing is power.</p><p>In this real-life thriller packed with jaw-dropping<br>revelations, award-winning investigative journalist Tom Burgis weaves together<br>four stories that reveal a terrifying global web of corruption: the<br>troublemaker from Basingstoke who stumbles on the secrets of a Swiss bank, the<br>ex-Soviet billionaire constructing a private empire, the righteous Canadian<br>lawyer with a mysterious client, and the Brooklyn crook protected by the CIA.</p><p>Glimpses of this shadowy world have emerged over the years.<br>In <em>Kleptopia</em>, Burgis connects the dots. He follows the dirty money that<br>is flooding the global economy, emboldening dictators, and poisoning<br>democracies. From the Kremlin to Beijing, Harare to Riyadh, Paris to the White<br>House, the trail

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780062883667

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

202 x 133 x 30 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Verlag / Hersteller

HarperCollins