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Kleptopia
- How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World
- Narrated by: Tom Burgis
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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.
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Critic Reviews
"When you pick this book up, you won’t be able to put it down." (Misha Glenny, author of McMafia)
"A powerful, appalling, and stunningly reported exposé.... It reads like fiction, but unfortunately is all too true." (Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money)
"Read Kleptopia now." (Roberto Saviano, best-selling author of Gomorrah)
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- Colin Mackay
- 02-12-2022
Chapter 41 did not play
Interesting book, could not get the last chapter to play. ? Otherwise a well told story
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- sean coady
- 04-07-2024
How morally corrupt powerful people can become
A fascinating rabbit warren story that shines a bright light on just how much high level corruption surrounds us, dressed up as ‘OK’ by powerful people. Tony Blair surprised me, Trump didn’t - using their networks and knowledge to turn a blind eye to murderous regimes washing billions of stolen money - getting rich themselves in the process. Great read.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-04-2022
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It has for a long time been evident that there is a lot of corruption in the world but this is eye watering. A lots of moving parts and hard to follow all the threads but there was clearly a lot to cover. I should have got out pen and paper to make a spider graph. Well done Tom
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- Kindle Customer
- 06-05-2022
Fascinating but depressing.
It's a truly incredible story that is mostly hard to follow but the gist of which is clear from the outset.
We live in a world ruled by Kleptocrats and they've discovered a self-enforcing model to keep themselves in power.
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