Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

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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 wont 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 worlds 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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A ghastly and very important story
Guardian

A meticulously reported piece of investigative journalism written in the style of a fast-paced thriller Gripping Kleptopia is not a far away republic in central Asia; it is all around us
The Times

I dont do book reviews. But I am reading Kleptopia very slowly as I have to keep picking my jaw up off the floor Fascinating. Terrifying
Paul Lewis

I might not have read, or even heard of Tom Burgis if ENRC hadnt sued. Now Im in. #Kleptopia Hugh Laurie

A must-read A magisterial account of the money and violence behind the worlds most powerful dictatorships Meticulously reported
Washington Post

The architects of our national security would do well to bring to their meetings a well-thumbed copy It unpicks the filthy flipside of globalisation Incendiary
Edward Lucas, The Times

Does the job brilliantly with a hero straight out of a John le Carr novel Wonderfully if grimly entertaining
Economist

His landmark book he lays bare what we need to know, and act upon Burgis provides us with the terrifying evidence. Read it and act
Jon Snow

Read Kleptopia now. There is no time to lose Tom Burgis demonstrates that money does indeed stink and shows how to follow its scent
Roberto Saviano

A powerful, appalling, and stunningly reported expos It reads like fiction, but unfortunately is all too true: Burgis names names, and follows the money, right into the Trump White House Shows how dark money has grown from a national problem into an international scourge
Jane Mayer

Reveals exactly why in the last thirty years organised crime and financial capitalism have fused to create a force of such power that no government or leader is free from the pressure it is able to apply When you pick this book up, you won't be able to put it down
Misha Glenny

Author Bio

Tom Burgis won a fellowship at the Financial Times in 2006, and has worked on the paper ever since. He has reported from London, Brussels, South America and Africa, writing on the privation and conflict that accompanies the resource trade.His work has appeared in the Telegraph, the Independent, the Observer, the New Statesman, the Big Issue and Open Democracy, and in 2010 he was shortlisted for Young Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards.