In this shockingly realistic and thoroughly documented narrative work, an award-winning investigative journalist uncovers the “monster of capitalism” - the global system of thieves - and reveals how it is corrupting the world around us.
They are everywhere, thieves and their minions. Masters of secrecy. Until now, we have only discovered their existence through what they leave behind. A body in a burning Audi. Bullet-penetrated workers in the Kazakhstan desert. Fraudulent elections in Zimbabwe. A British banker was silenced and humiliated for trying to uncover the truth about the City of London.They raised more money than most countries. But what they're really stealing is power.
In this realistic thriller full of startling discoveries, award-winning investigative journalist Tom Burgess weaves four stories revealing a terrifying global web of corruption:A hooligan from Basingstoke who accidentally stumbles upon the secrets of a Swiss bank, a former Soviet billionaire who builds a private empire, a good Canadian lawyer who has a mysterious client, and a crook from Brooklyn who is protected by the CIA.Glimpses of this dark world have emerged over the years. In his book Kleptopia, Burgess binds the strings. It tracks dirty money that floods the global economy, encourages dictators, and poisons democracies. From the Kremlin to Beijing, from Harare to Riyadh, from Paris to the White House, the trail reveals something even more ominous: thieves unite. The human toll will be heavy.
