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“A powerful, appalling, and stunningly reported exposé of the global corruption that runs like an underground river from the world’s darkest and dirtiest dictatorships through some of the planet’s richest banks and governments. It reads like fiction, but unfortunately is all too true...”―Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money
They are masters of secrecy, the only clues to their existence, the remains they leave behind. 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. They have amassed more money than most countries. But what they are really stealing is power.
In this real-life thriller, investigative journalist Tom Burgis weaves together four stories that reveal a terrifying global web of corruption: the troublemaker from Basingstoke who stumbles on the secrets of a Swiss bank, the ex-Soviet billionaire constructing a private empire, the righteous Canadian lawyer with a mysterious client, and the Brooklyn crook protected by the CIA.
Burgis follows the dirty money that is flooding today’s global economy, emboldening dictators, and poisoning democracies. From the Kremlin to Beijing, Harare to Riyadh, Paris to the White House, the trail points to something even more sinister: the thieves are uniting. And the human cost will be great.
