| Edition |
Picador Movie Tie-in Edition. |
| Physical Description |
x, 350 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-330) and index. |
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Originally published as "Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite" in 2017. |
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"With new afterword" --cover. |
| Contents |
Nazis and radical priests -- Tropical paradises -- Name of the game -- Rise of the global banksters -- How to beat the game -- Full speed -- The North Star -- The art of secrecy -- The Vikings lose their Ferraris -- Combing the monster -- Journalistic firepower -- Profitable princelings -- Follow the leaks -- Trouble ahead, trouble behind -- Fortune favors the bold -- Collaboration triumphs -- The wave breaks -- The secrecy world enters the White House -- Epilogue -- Afterword to the paperback edition. |
| Summary |
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers, a landscape of illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global scale. Jake Bernstein offers a disturbing and sobering view of how the world really works and raises crucial questions about financial and legal institutions we may once have trusted. |
| Subject |
Panama Papers.
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Tax evasion.
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Tax havens.
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Political corruption.
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Money laundering.
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Financial disclosure.
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Finance, Public -- Corrupt practices.
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| Alternate Title |
Secrecy world : inside the Panama Papers investigation of illicit money networks and the global elite |
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