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The Shadow World

Inside the Global Arms Trade

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The Shadow World

By: Andrew Feinstein
Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
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The digital audiobook edition of Andrew Feinstein's powerful exposé, The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, complete and unabridged and read by the actor Gildart Jackson.

Pulling back the curtain on the secretive world of the global arms trade, Andrew Feinstein reveals the corruption and the cover-ups behind weapons deals ranging from the largest in history - between the British and Saudi governments - to BAE's controversial transactions in South Africa, Tanzania and eastern Europe, and the revolving-door relationships that characterise the US Congressional-Military-Industrial Complex. He exposes in forensic detail both the formal government-to-government trade in arms and the shadow world of illicit weapons dealing - and lays bare the shocking and inextricable links between the two.

The Shadow World places us in the midst of the arms trade's dramatic wheeling and dealing, ranging from corporate boardrooms to seedy out-of-the-way hotels via far-flung offshore havens, and reveals the profound danger this network represents to all of us.

 Corruption & Misconduct Freedom & Security Military Politics & Government Weapons & Warfare National Security Africa Government Middle East

Critic Reviews

Praise for Andrew Feinstein's After the Party (-)
Chronicles a dream sabotaged by the graft, shenanigans and deceit of a £5 billion arms procurement
A damning exposure of the shocking effects of the arms trade on a new democracy. Brave and compelling
A truth-seeking missile. It reveals how much courage is required to swim against the sycophantic tide. To many it's clear he is a hero
All stars
Most relevant
This book is an exposure of recent arms deals involving widespread corruption and bribery and the governance systems that are complicit in covering up and actively promoting these deals.

The amounts of money involved are staggering and the corresponding horror and misery is just as vast. The author really communicates the scale and corruption of the industry in a very detailed and sober way, showing the effects on western democracies as well as less developed countries with large sections on Saudi, British and American involvement and the chaos and emiseration in Africa as well as smaller sections on Israel and the Middle East and western and eastern Europe.

Excellent in depth book.

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If this was a work of fiction it would be derided as far fetched, however it is true and the level of detail by Feinstein will leave you shaking your head in amazement at what constitutes the Shadow World of arms dealing.

Incredible

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What a great book! Very much packed with information (going through footnotes to double check will take ages). It definitely triggers cynicism. A very detailed account that leaves no government clean.

Be prepared to go into details!

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There is so I much information jammed into this book. We’ll worth it a listen.

A tonne of info nuggets

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