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Kleptopia
- How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World
- Narrated by: Tom Burgis
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
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Summary
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 won’t 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 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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"When you pick this book up, you won’t be able to put it down." (Misha Glenny, author of McMafia)
"A powerful, appalling, and stunningly reported exposé.... It reads like fiction, but unfortunately is all too true." (Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money)
"Read Kleptopia now." (Roberto Saviano, best-selling author of Gomorrah)
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- Ian Blake
- 21-04-21
Brilliant account of global corruption
Investigative journalism at its best, coupled with brilliant storytelling. One of the most interesting and engaging books I've ever read.
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- Kazakh Stan
- 21-03-22
Nigel would be proud
What a great piece of work, courageous, coherent, excoriating, we should all look forward to a successful conclusion to this unfinished dirty business
Переведите, пожалуйста, на русский язык!
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-03-22
We're all donee for.
Good book that is well read by the author. Subject matter is ultimately soul destroying.
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- James senior
- 17-05-22
not shocking unfortunately
Well researched. A lot of detail. But also a well told story.
will check out various characters mentioned.
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- Amazon Customer
- 14-02-22
Truth stranger than fiction
Horrifying, but brilliant. Well written with a fantastic turn of phrase. A terrifying story that's puts the current crisis in the Ukraine in context.
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- "liamclogger"
- 04-04-21
Dear God
...some of this we knew, but Burgis pulls the whole stinking carcass into full view. Superbly knitted together with a thread of naivety and eccentric innocence set against the brutal reality of how democracy is now just a cover story for kleptocracy. Brilliantly depressing.
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- Ms.KLG
- 07-04-22
An eye opener
Sadly confirms what many of us already suspect, interesting but at times hard to keep up with all the names involved but defo worth a listen.
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- Robert Herron
- 21-06-22
Excellent listen!
Really enjoyable and insightful listen. I did find it hard to follow the story sometimes and remember the names of all the main characters but that did not takeaway from the mind blowing information. thoroughly enjoyed the listen and thought the content and performer were brilliant.
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- Gerry McClement
- 11-02-23
Far Reaching
Fascinating and funny it’s a story you couldn’t make up. There are sad stories although mostly there are nasty stories funded by worse people.
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- Asha C
- 22-05-22
Scarily insightful
This was easy enough to listen to and whilst it seems to be filled pf conspiracy theories from what we all know of how the world works it would surprise me if everything in here is 100% true and accurate. Worth a listen which will make you question what would you, if you were the one in such a position of power.
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