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    The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade
    The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade
    The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade
    Audiobook25 hours

    The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade

    Written by Andrew Feinstein

    Narrated by Gildart Jackson

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    Pulling back the curtain on the secretive world of the global arms trade, Andrew Feinstein
    reveals the corruption and the cover-ups behind a range of weapons deals, from the largest in history-between the British and Saudi governments-to the guns-for-diamonds deals in Africa and the imminent $60 billion U.S. weapons contract with Saudi Arabia. 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 shockingly frequent links between the two. Drawing on his experience as a member of the African National Congress who resigned when the ANC refused to launch a corruption investigation into a major South African arms deal, Feinstein illuminates the impact this network has not only on
    conflicts around the world but also on the democratic institutions of
    the United States and the United Kingdom.Based on pathbreaking reporting and unprecedented access to top-secret information and major players in this clandestine realm, The Shadow World places
    us in the midst of the arms trade's dramatic wheeling and dealing-from corporate boardrooms to seedy out-of-the-way hotels-and reveals the profound danger and enormous financial cost this network represents to all of us.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateDec 5, 2011
    ISBN9781452675107

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    • 4/5
      This book is a complete and utter failure. Luckily, it isn't really a book: it's a gigantic finger pointed at the world by Humanity as she slowly, desperately tries to make headway against the absolute idiocy that is the actually existing human species.

      I have a hard time imagining anyone who would read this and come away feeling anything other than horrified disgust at the degree to which government, industry and armed forces are tied together, in Europe, the U.K., the U.S., and most horrifically in Africa and the Middle East. There is no genuine political ideology anywhere that could approve of the relationship between, for instance, Lockheed Martin, the United States Air Force, and the American Government. Corporate welfare is bad enough to unite libertarians and communists; corporate welfare dollars being used to make over-priced, under-performing death machines is really a whole 'nother turkey.

      At the same time, I have a hard time imagining anyone who would read this and come away feeling anything other than tremendous fatigue. Feinstein obviously knows *everything*, except how to fit all the facts he knows into a digestible form. What we have here is, instead, a fact explosion. There is no good reason for this book to be almost 600 pages long. There are a number of bad reasons: i) Feinstein focuses on arms companies' garden-variety corruption in Saudi Arabia for long portions of the book, which is a bit like complaining about how the mass murderer down the street doesn't take good enough care of her lawn. ii) He tries to pack the history of Africa into the middle of the book to show that weapons get used on people. That's horrific, no doubt, but also accomplishes little. iii) He's unable to resist a good conspiracy theory, so we end up with hard to digest, hard to verify tales about shadowy underworld figures cutting deals within deals within money laundering within deals, all of which detracts from the really overwhelming horrors of, in particular, the relationship between BAE and the U.K. government, or that between the U.S. arms industry and its government. iv) Feinstein writes like a freshman who can't really be bothered with things like sentence structure.

      So, in short, six stars for content, minus two for the organization and prose. You absolutely must read the intro, chapters 3, 5, 7, and sections III and IV. The rest is awful, awful window dressing.
    • 5/5
      Audiobook. Absolutely incredible. Amazing depth and breadth of research. Covers everything from Saudi Arabia's US and UK conlonies to the diamond mines of Sierra Leonne ot the Balkans war. The truth is more corrupt and immoral than fiction.
    • 5/5

      Fascinating, methodical, and extremely difficult at times, The Shadow World opens the light on just how far reaching and devastating the gloabl arms trade is. An important book to say the least.
    • 2/5
      This should be half as long and written by someone else, but it does contain some interesting information. Skipped over section 3 mostly. ( I was thinking of writing about the arms trade in 2000 or so )