The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade
- ISBN-10
- 0241144418
- ISBN-13
- 9780241144411
- Series
- The Shadow World
- Category
- Arms transfers
- Pages
- 928
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Author
- Andrew Feinstein
Description
THE SHADOW WORLDis the harrowing, behind-the-scenes tale of the global arms trade. Pulling back the curtain on this secretive world, Andrew Feinstein reveals the corruption and the cover-ups behind weapons deals ranging from the largest in history - between the British and Saudi governments - to BAE's controversial transactions in South Africa, Tanzania and eastern Europe, and the revolving-door relationships that characterise the US Congressional-Military-Industrial Complex. He exposes in forensic detail both the formal government-to-government trade in arms and the shadow world of illicit weapons dealing - and lays bare the shocking and inextricable links between the two. Based on path-breaking reporting and unprecedented access to top-secret information and major players in the weapons business, including arms dealers who have never been interviewed before, The Shadow Worldplaces us in the midst of the arms trade's dramatic wheeling and dealing, ranging from corporate boardrooms to seedy out-of-the-way hotels via far-flung offshore havens, and reveals the profound danger this network represents to all of us.
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