The Shadow World

Inside the Global Arms Trade

Andrew Feinstein

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Penguin
24 October 2012

History; Arms trade

Authoritative, disturbing and compelling- an essential expose of the shocking truth behind the multi-billion-pound global arms trade

Pulling back the curtain on the secretive world of the global arms trade, 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.

The Shadow World places 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.

By: Andrew Feinstein
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 43mm
Weight: 501g
ISBN: 9780141040059
ISBN 10: 014104005X
Pages: 704
Publication Date: 24 October 2012
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Andrew Feinstein is the author of After the Party: A Personal and Political Journey Inside the ANC, a best-selling memoir of his time as an African National Congress Member of Parliament in South Africa. His journalism has been featured in the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, Prospect, the New York Times, Der Spiegel, the New Statesman and Africa Report. In 2011 he authored the lead article in the authoritative Sipri Yearbook. He appears regularly on the BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera. He has recently been an Open Society Institute International Fellow and is the founding co-director of Corruption Watch, an anti-corruption NGO, and chairperson of the Aids charity FoTAC.

Reviews for The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade

An authoritative guide to the business of war. Chilling, heartbreaking, and enraging. ---Arundhati Roy Feinstein writes with a crusading spirit and a depth of detail that lend The Shadow World urgency and authority....A comprehensive treatment of the arms trade, possibly the most complete account that has ever been written. --- The Washington Post Feinstein makes his case with an impressive amount of detailed research and a gift for narrative that make his findings hard to dismiss. --- Foreign Affairs An eye-opener...Everyone would do well to read this book and self-educate on what this world is all about, and then take some action in the voting booth....Tremendous. --- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette