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Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering The World

'If you think the UK isn't corrupt, you haven't looked hard enough ... This new and terrifying book follows a global current of dirty money, and the murders and kidnappings required to sustain it' George Monbiot, Guardian 'When you pick this book up, you won't be able to put it down' Misha Glenny, author of McMafia 'Combines forensic investigative journalism with the narrative propulsion of a literary thriller. The result is a masterful, gripping read that is all the more disturbing because it's true' Nathan Filer, bestselling author of The Shock of the Fall 'The architects of our national security would do well to bring to their meetings a well-thumbed copy of Kleptopia ... Incendiary' Edward Lucas, The Times 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.

yazar Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering The World:Tom Burgis

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Ros and Graeme

If you want to know why we are where we are, this is essential reading. Back in 1974 I was a Grade 1 clerk at British Transport Hotels working with Alex, a Pole in his sixties who was also a Grade 1 clerk. As far as he was concerned everyone was on the take. The office chat turned to Jesus Christ Superstar, ‘Archbishop Canterbury, he getting his cut.’ We laughed. Turns out he was a prophet. Turns out what separates us in this kleptocratic society of ours, in this kleptocratic world of ours, is just the degree to which we avert our eyes. As the angle moves towards zero, the cast of this book gets scarier and scarier, but it’s the complicity, the secondary and tertiary exploitation that gets you. If you want to understand why we are where we are, politically, economically, legally, morally, I would strongly recommend Tom Burgis’ Kleptopia.

Jessica Black

Important subject, unreadable book I was disappointed with this book. I'd heard a podcast interview with Tom Burgis, where he was clear, lively, succinct and informative. This interview prompted me to buy his book to find out more about the subject of the interview. His writing style is completely unlike his speaking style. I found the book impossible to read. It is neither clear enough nor well written enough to read like a novel. Yet its narrative format is maddening if I try to read it as a text book. It jumps around, with flashbacks and parallel story lines, and a huge cast of characters, some of whom are known by more than one name. I found it very hard to work out what was going on. No doubt this reflects the reality of the author's research, but it makes for a trying read. It would be much better if he simply told us what he has discovered: explain what money is flowing, from where to where, who is involved, what the effect is and why it's bad. Then we could understand what's going on. As it is, I could not discern the important points of this book amongst the blizzard of detail. This is such a pity, as I really wanted to learn about the illicit money flows that he describes.

biker

Tough reading This book has an enormous amount of detail relating to its subject but it is presented in such a Hollywood type fashion that it is almost impossible to read. There are multiple characters sketched in glitzy details and endlessly confusing situations that make them almost impossible to follow and it is written in a terribly unique style: " What mattered.. was the story that was told, the story that was projected onto the world. That was what made the clouds angry rather than some other mood, what determined who was Jelyll, who was Hyde. The vocabulary of the stories about money served those who had lots of it." and on it goes, endlessly until one's brain screams 'enough, enough' but it doesn't stop. It is, ultimately, unreadable.

A virtually impossible read. I have no doubt the author knows what he is talking about and has done an incredible amount of research but this is an almost impossible read in my view. He disgorges names, places and companies in enormous quantities and varying contexts that are impossible to connect. I kept hunting for threads but eventually gave up. I cannot believe this book has been through an editor. It is a great shame as the subject is so important.

Amen

Tedious and poorly structured Tedious, with convoluted rather rambling threads that were difficult to follow. Supporting data for various assertions always felt cursory and thin. In the end, the author states the blindingly obvious..... dirty money has to be cleaned to wield power and influence; where better to launder than real estate in UK/USA?...... The personal sob stories were over-done and the final section that focused on a vilification of Trump seemed to lack any solid evidence.