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3.63 AVERAGE
There were so many names to keep track of and I couldn't get the "cast of characters" so it was kind of hard to follow everything. I was expecting this to be a bit more narrative like some other non-fiction I've read and it just wasn't quite. I listened to Burgis being interviewed by Ben Rhodes and I think I could have been good with just that interview and skipped this book. I guess it just wasn't what I was expecting. I thought it would be more like a Patrick Radden Keefe book or maybe a Jane Mayer book?
Such an all-important topic - global kleptocracy, money laundering, fraud and the Western banking system that enables them - but a tough book to read. The reporting jumps from person to person and across geographies and is difficult to keep track of. The focus is on Kazakhstan, the City of London, the Congo & Zimbabwe and former president Trump’s financial entanglements throughout the 2000s and in office.
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I think I would have followed this better if I hadn't been listening to the audiobook, but it was very interesting, especially towards the end where I had more context for what was going on.
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