Kleptopia by Tom Burgis
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Kleptopia
- How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World
- By: Tom Burgis
- Narrated by: Tom Burgis
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, True Crime
Publisher's Summary
An Economist Book of the Year 2020.
A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year 2020.
In this real-life thriller packed with jaw-dropping revelations, award-winning Investigative Journalist Tom Burgis reveals a terrifying global web of corruption. Kleptopia follows the dirty money that is flooding the global economy, emboldening dictators and poisoning democracies.
From the Kremlin to Beijing, Harare to Riyadh, Paris 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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©2020 Tom Burgis (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Kindle Customer
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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What to say
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