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2016 The Age (Australia): ""The Company that Bribed the World"" 2016 Huffington Post (USA): ""Big Banks Aided Firm At Center Of International Bribery Scandal"" 2019 Financial Times (UK): ""Former executives plead guilty to bribery"" 2019 The New York Times (USA): ""A toxic brand"" 2021 The Guardian (UK): ""Money from 'world's biggest bribe scandal' invested in UK property"" 2023 The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia): ""Bribery is part of the game"" 2024 The Economist (UK): ""Is America thwarting Britain's fight against corruption ?"" Nearly a decade has passed since the first searches and arrests in Monaco, England, Italy, Australia, and the United States. This story, drawn from real events and made public in 2016, takes the reader into one of the largest corruption scandals of the twenty-first century, within an industry known for recurrent abuses. Government officials, executives of major state-owned firms, and leaders of large multinational groups are involved. The narrator, both whistleblower and key witness, provides a personal and clear account of his fight against corruption, his dilemmas, and his view of its causes and effects. The story retraces his early years, his loves, his battles, and his first professional missions in conflict zones, which revealed his courage and made him aware of the importance of the values and ideas that shape the world. Marked from a young age by loss, duty, and responsibility, he becomes a morally independent man who accepts his choices, his decision to speak out, and to expose the crimes he has witnessed. The story follows his plan and the work of a determined journalist, and how together they uncover a complex criminal network, its covert methods, its structure, and its tactical use of influence. The rivalry between European and American law-enforcement bodies, along with the actions of propaganda and crisis-communication firms described by the narrator, shows the obstacles he and the journalist had to manage at each stage. At the centre of this affair, which spans five continents-from London, Tehran, and Baghdad to New York, Tripoli, Algiers, and Sydney, through Beirut, Paris, Dubai, and Rome-stands a tiny state on a rock above the Mediterranean: Monaco. These disclosures triggered a series of investigations and trials that exposed the workings of global corruption.

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