The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade
Andrew Feinstein, "The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade"
English | ISBN: 0374208387 | 2011 | 704 pages | PDF | 27 MB
English | ISBN: 0374208387 | 2011 | 704 pages | PDF | 27 MB
The Shadow World is the harrowing behind-the-scenes tale of the global arms trade, revealing the deadly collusion that all too often exists among senior politicians, weapons manufacturers, felonious arms dealers, and the militarya situation that compromises our security and undermines our democracy. Pulling back the curtain on this secretive world, Andrew Feinstein reveals the corruption and the cover-ups behind a range of weapons deals, from the largest in historybetween the British and Saudi governmentsto the guns-for-diamonds deals in Africa and the imminent $60 billion U.S. weapons contract with Saudi Arabia. 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 shockingly frequent links between the two. Drawing on his experience as a member of the African National Congress who resigned when the ANC refused to launch a corruption invest