By Andrew Feinstein
ISBN-10: 0241145244
ISBN-13: 9780241145241
The Shadow World is the harrowing, behind-the-scenes story of the worldwide palms exchange. Pulling again the curtain in this secretive international, Andrew Feinstein finds the corruption and the cover-ups at the back of guns offers starting from the most important in heritage – among the British and Saudi governments – to BAE’s debatable transactions in South Africa, Tanzania and japanese Europe, and the revolving-door relationships that symbolize the USA Congressional-Military-Industrial advanced. He exposes in forensic aspect either the formal government-to-government exchange in hands and the shadow international of illicit guns dealing – and lays naked the stunning and inextricable hyperlinks among the two.
Based on path-breaking reporting and on unparalleled entry to top-secret details and significant avid gamers within the guns company, together with fingers buyers who've by no means been interviewed prior to, The Shadow international locations us in the middle of the palms trade’s dramatic wheeling and working, starting from company boardrooms to seedy out-of-the-way motels through far-flung offshore havens, and divulges the profound probability this community represents to all of us.
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