MISHA GLENNY, author ofMCMAFIA‘When you pick this book up, you won’t be able to put it down’

BEN RHODES, bestselling author ofTHE WORLD AS IT IS‘Gripping, disturbing and deeply reported’

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

follows the dirty money that is flooding the global economy, emboldening dictators, enriching oligarchs and poisoning democracies. From the Kremlin to Beijing, Harare to Riyadh, London to the Trump White House, it shows how the thieves are uniting – and the terrible human cost.Kleptopia

to expose the truth about the City of London – the world’s piggy bank for blood moneyA 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.

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.

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘If you think the UK isn't corrupt, you haven't looked hard enough … This terrifying book follows a global current of dirty money, and the murders and kidnappings required to sustain it’ GEORGE MONBIOT,GUARDIAN AN AND BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020ECONOMISTWASHINGTON POST