Very Bad People by Patrick Alley
$7.99
Very Bad People
- The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World’s Network of Corruption
- By: Patrick Alley
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, True Crime
Publisher's Summary
Arms trafficking, offshore accounts and luxury property deals. Super-yachts, private jets and super-car collections. blood diamonds, suspect oil deals, deforestation and murder. This is the world of Global Witness, the award-winning organisation dedicated to rooting out worldwide corruption. And this is co-founder Patrick Alley's revealing inside track on a breath-taking catalogue of modern super-crimes - and the 'shadow network' that enables them.
Very Bad People is about following the money, going undercover in the world's most dangerous places and bringing down the people behind the crimes. Case by case, we see maverick investigators pitched against warlords, grifters and super-villains who bear every resemblance to The Night Manager's Richard Roper. One dictator's son spent 700 million dollars in just four years on his luxury lifestyle.
As they unravel crooked deals of labyrinthine complexity, the team encounter well-known corporations whose operations are no less criminal than the Mafia. This network of lawyers, bankers and real estate agents help park dirty money in London, New York or in offshore accounts, safe from prying eyes.
Patrick Alley's book is a brilliant, authoritative and fearless investigation into the darkest workings of our world - and an inspiration to all of us who want to fight back.
©2022 Patrick Alley (P)2022 Octopus Publishing Group
Brian Hopper
a powerful expose’ well balanced in delivery
good choice of narrator showing a sense of the authors emotion and passion and learning along the way. I will be buying the hard copy as well and sharing this book extensively.
Anonymous User
An eye opener!!
Absolutely ‘gobsmacking’ research. Gosh when you think drug dealers are big time…. nothing compared to this scale. Without GW constantly investigating there will be just another to take the perpetrators place…thank you for standing up for the less fortunate people. We will never rid the world corruption unfortunately. I just cannot understand why so few people need that much wealth, when they could have it both… meaning the leaders and their people could benefit even if they wanted to be corrupt/wealthy. You just couldn’t spend this amount of money in a life time. Why would you not want your country and all its people to benefit? I will be supporting your cause. Everyone’s eyes should be open to this…thank you GW