The Shadow World, Andrew Feinstein
The Shadow World, Andrew Feinstein
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The Shadow World
Inside the Global Arms Trade

Author: Andrew Feinstein

Narrator: Gildart Jackson

Unabridged: 25 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/05/2011


Synopsis

Pulling back the curtain on the secretive world of the global arms trade, Andrew Feinstein
reveals the corruption and the cover-ups behind a range of weapons deals, from the largest in history—between the British and Saudi governments—to the guns-for-diamonds deals in Africa and the imminent $60 billion U.S. weapons contract with Saudi Arabia. He exposes in forensic detail both the formal government-to-government trade in arms and the shadow world of illicit weapons dealing, and lays bare the shockingly frequent links between the two. Drawing on his experience as a member of the African National Congress who resigned when the ANC refused to launch a corruption investigation into a major South African arms deal, Feinstein illuminates the impact this network has not only on
conflicts around the world but also on the democratic institutions of
the United States and the United Kingdom.

Based on pathbreaking reporting and unprecedented access to top-secret information and major players in this clandestine realm, The Shadow World places
us in the midst of the arms trade's dramatic wheeling and dealing—from corporate boardrooms to seedy out-of-the-way hotels—and reveals the profound danger and enormous financial cost this network represents to all of us.

About Andrew Feinstein

Andrew Feinstein is the author of After the Party: Corruption, the ANC and South Africa's Future, a political memoir. He is currently an Open Society Institute fellow and the founding codirector of Corruption Watch in London.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Justin on September 16, 2013

This book is a complete and utter failure. Luckily, it isn't really a book: it's a gigantic finger pointed at the world by Humanity as she slowly, desperately tries to make headway against the absolute idiocy that is the actually existing human species. I have a hard time imagining anyone who would......more

Goodreads review by Paul on January 08, 2013

In summer 2011, having become convinced that the machinations of what Dwight Eisenhower called the "military-industrial complex" represents one of the most serious threats to peace and freedom everywhere, I set about trying to find a book on it. Nothing really seemed to deal with that subject direct......more

Goodreads review by Ken on March 16, 2018

Well after reading this seems living in peace for certain parts of the world is only a dream. It's just terrible reading some of the little side stories. The villians really are living in the western countries.......more

Goodreads review by Jason on July 07, 2024

Just after World War II, big business, the military, and the trans-Atlantc governments began working together to rebuild their militaries. It became obvious that the industrial production of war materiel is profitable and more profits results in more power. Within a decade, America had entered the......more

Goodreads review by Eoin on November 02, 2017

One reads about the wilfully ignorant in the world who allow human driven climate change to proceed unabated. Such people are unintentionally evil and spectacularly dim. But this book... This is a catalogue of dealings of actively malevolent people. People who facilitate the deaths of hundreds of th......more