A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year • An Economist Book of the Year ?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 Post In 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.
