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    The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade

    Written 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin UK Audio
    Release dateNov 15, 2011
    ISBN9780241962381

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    • 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 )
    • 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.