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The Sunday Times bestseller
A must-read ... magisterial
When you pick this book up, you won’t be able to put it down
A powerful, appalling, and stunningly reported exposé.
Read Kleptopia now. There is no time to lose.
Read it and act.
terrifying
Incendiary
Burgis depicts an unsavory coalition of corrupt strongmen, artful criminals, and rapacious élites who, abetted by a network of accountants, lawyers, and other professional facilitators, have managed to pillage money on a grand scale and hide it abroad
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The looting machine: warlords, tycoons, smugglers and systematic theft of Africa's wealth
A shocking investigative journey into the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, The Looting Machine explores the dark underbelly of the global economy.
‘A brave, defiant book’ New York Times
Winner of a US Overseas Press Club award

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