Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

Kleptopia is a book by Tom Burgis that exposes a global web of kleptocracy and corruption, revealing how dirty money is flooding the global economy, empowering dictators, enriching oligarchs, and poisoning democracies. It includes jaw-dropping revelations such as a body in a burned-out Audi, workers riddled with bullets in the Kazakh desert, a rigged election in Zimbabwe, and a British banker silenced and humiliated for trying to expose the truth about the City of London.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 08 July 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

In this real-life thriller packed with jaw-dropping revelations, award-winning investigative journalist Tom Burgis reveals a terrifying global web of corruption.

Kleptopia 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 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.

Weight: 264g
Dimension: 129 x 197 x 34 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780008308384