A thrilling and deeply disturbing account of how oligarchs and gangsters have undermined the world's financial system with dirty money, hidden it in western cities, and powered authoritarian regimes with it.

A global current of corruption is washing billions of dollars of dirty money from the streets of Russia and Kazakhstan right into the cities of London, New York, Geneva, and Rome.

Money is laundered, hidden, and used to keep the very dictatorships western leaders publicly condemn in power.

Tom Burgis is an award-winning investigations correspondent from the Financial Times and has reported on corruption in 40 different countries.

In his latest book, Kleptopia, Burgis weaves a colorful cast of characters from the criminal underworld, the Kremlin, and the world's biggest banks to tell the tale of how organized crime and financial capitalism became a force no government is immune from.