No Way Out

Why the Rich Stay Rich-and the System Is Designed That Way

Julian A Devereaux

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Vij Books
25 September 2025

Accounting; Research & development management

What if everything you've been told about opportunity, fairness, and success was built on a lie?

This book reveals the hidden machinery behind global wealth inequality, showing how today's economic systems weren't designed to uplift-but to contain. From the corridors of offshore finance secrets to the institutional grip of the IMF and World Bank, it traces a chilling logic: the game is rigged, and it's rigged to keep the few rich and the many trapped.

It's not just about loopholes or bad actors-it's about an entire architecture built to make tax havens legal, billionaires untouchable, and poverty seem like personal failure. Through gripping narratives and forensic storytelling, you'll uncover how global elite power structures quietly govern the world with no accountability. You'll see how the myth of meritocracy turns ambition into shame, how debt is used as a tool of discipline, and why capitalism and inequality are not opposing forces-but intimate partners.

This book is for readers who sense that something deeper is wrong-who are done with surface-level answers and want to understand how power actually works. Whether you're a student, activist, thinker, or professional, it will give you the tools to see the invisible architecture of control.

- Discover why the rich stay rich-and what that means for everyone else

- Learn how the system is rigged at a structural, legal, and psychological level

- Understand why economic injustice is sustained not by accident, but by design

- Explore the hidden world of wealth few ever see-and fewer dare to challenge

By the final page, you won't just know more-you'll see differently. Because once you truly understand the rules of the game, there's no way out of seeing them.

By: Julian A Devereaux
Imprint: Vij Books
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 231g
ISBN: 9789348738349
ISBN 10: 9348738348
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 25 September 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Julian A. Devereaux writes at the intersection of global power, structural inequality, and moral imagination. With a background that spans continents and a lifelong study of systems-economic, legal, and psychological-his work challenges readers to rethink not only how the world works, but whom it works for. He believes that seeing clearly is the first act of resistance, and that truth-telling, when done well, is never neutral. No Way Out is the culmination of years spent listening to stories hidden between the headlines and tracing the invisible threads that bind privilege to silence. Devereaux's writing is known for its intellectual rigor, emotional resonance, and its unflinching insistence that complexity is not an excuse for complicity.