Kleptopia, Tom Burgis
Kleptopia, Tom Burgis
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Kleptopia
How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World

Author: Tom Burgis

Narrator: Tom Burgis

Unabridged: 10 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/08/2020

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

“A must-read for anyone wanting to better understand what has already happened here in America and what lies ahead if Trump is reelected in November…. A magisterial account of the money and violence behind the world’s most powerful dictatorships.” –Washington PostIn this shocking, meticulously reported work of narrative nonfiction, an award-winning investigative journalist exposes “capitalism’s monster”—global kleptocracy—and reveals how it is corrupting the world around us.They are everywhere, the thieves and their people. Masters of secrecy. Until now we have detected their presence only by what 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 packed with jaw-dropping revelations, award-winning 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.Glimpses of this shadowy world have emerged over the years. In Kleptopia, Burgis connects the dots. He 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 White House, the trail shows something even more sinister: the thieves are uniting. And the human cost will be great.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

About Tom Burgis

Tom Burgis is an investigations correspondent at the Financial Times. He has reported from more than forty countries, won major journalism awards in the US and Asia and been shortlisted for eight others, including twice at the British Press Awards. His critically acclaimed book The Looting Machine, about the modern plundering of Africa, won an Overseas Press Club of America award.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Zainab on August 15, 2021

Tom deserves billions of dollars in a Swiss account for having kept track of difficult people with difficult names. It so deserves a screenplay. Trump and likes won't like it, sure. But it'll be like a combination of the Godfather, Goodfellas, and The Wolf of Wall Street. Maybe, the Malaysian klepto......more

Goodreads review by Rohit on February 18, 2021

A fast paced book and a look at the world of money laundering, corruption, billionaires and oligarchs. The author has done a good job researching the events, mainly in Russia, Kazakhstan, USA and UK. Asia does not feature here except for some references. The title of the book caught my attention. Th......more

Goodreads review by Avishek on January 03, 2021

While writing the review for Kleptopia, the first thought that comes to my mind is that of what another Goodreads reviewer said, that Tom Burgis, the writer of Kleptoipa, should get a million dollar (tax free) for the impossible efforts to put these convoluted threads and trails of dirty money toget......more

Goodreads review by Edwin on March 05, 2022

The privatisation of power and their laundromats for stolen money This is Blacklist meets McMafia meets the investigation attempt in Billions. It is a fast-paced narration of a true story of the names that you’ve probably never heard of, but secretly controls a huge chunk of the world’s money. The bo......more

Goodreads review by Alexandros on November 11, 2021

It felt a bit surreal reading this book while on my commute from a little village of West Sussex to the grandeur of London, a place that feels as if everything that is happening in the world is happening there. The reason it felt surreal had to do with the fact that I had started a new job as a comp......more