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The Shadow World

Inside the Global Arms Trade

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The Shadow World

By: Andrew Feinstein
Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
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The digital audiobook edition of Andrew Feinstein's powerful exposé, The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, complete and unabridged and read by the actor Gildart Jackson.

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.

 Corruption & Misconduct Freedom & Security Military Politics & Government Weapons & Warfare National Security Africa Government Middle East

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Critic reviews

Praise for Andrew Feinstein's After the Party (-)
Chronicles a dream sabotaged by the graft, shenanigans and deceit of a £5 billion arms procurement
A damning exposure of the shocking effects of the arms trade on a new democracy. Brave and compelling
A truth-seeking missile. It reveals how much courage is required to swim against the sycophantic tide. To many it's clear he is a hero
All stars
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It is too long by about 5 hours. Whilst Andrew has an obvious grasp of the subject and has researched this extensively. You still cannot feel that he is hitting the easy targets first. Europe and America, he covers them extremely well but misses the irony that all the so called, 'shadow' deals, are all too in the public sphere and are so sensitive that they can be published in a book and he not be sued. He starts to cover the other main areas but it reads more like a history book than a serious look at this world. He misses our secrecy jurisdictions and aged Russian plans and why the West seems unable to act and then suddenly does. Whislt I would recommend it, it is at best a second rate book.

Good - but too long and anti western

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One of the most informative books I have ever read. Andrew Feinstein seems like a throughly decent and honest man and it's a shame he's no longer a politician but excellent that he is able to shine a light on one of the most damage of political and industrial relationships.

Incredibly well researched and argued

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"Some people just want to watch the world burn"
Unfortunately they are the ones in power. They absolve themselves of all responsibility by victim blaming and their control of the press. The fact that the current economic system is built on war and will breakdown due to the lack of it, this is very unlikely going to stop in its own. Citizens of the world need to unite and put an end to this never ending cycle by spreading the knowledge and demanding what is right. No amount of economic activity justifies millions of dead people in the guise of national interest.

Enlightening

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We all know it goes on but the staggering arrogance of the individuals involved is truly sickening.

The narration is quite dry, which probably suits the subject matter.

Sickening

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this is a secrecy masterpiece and Andrew delivers the complicated world with ease. complicated exciting and intriguing

fantastic stuff, loved every bit of it

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