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"The Shadow World presents the behind-the-scenes tale of the global arms trade, exposing in forensic detail the deadly collusion that too often exists among senior politicians, weapons manufacturers, felonious arms dealers, and the military--a situation that compromises our security and undermines our democracy. Now a major PBS documentary ""An authoritative guide to the business of war. Chilling, heartbreaking, and enraging.""--Arundhati Roy Andrew Feinstein reveals 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 current $60 billion U.S. weapons contract with Saudi Arabia. Based on pathbreaking reporting and unprecedented access to top-secret information, The Shadow World takes us into a clandestine realm that is as vitally important as it is shocking."

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An authoritative guide to the business of war. Chilling, heartbreaking, and enraging. ---Arundhati Roy Feinstein writes with a crusading spirit and a depth of detail that lend The Shadow World urgency and authority....A comprehensive treatment of the arms trade, possibly the most complete account that has ever been written. --- The Washington Post Feinstein makes his case with an impressive amount of detailed research and a gift for narrative that make his findings hard to dismiss. --- Foreign Affairs An eye-opener...Everyone would do well to read this book and self-educate on what this world is all about, and then take some action in the voting booth....Tremendous. --- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Remarkable and courageous. There is enough in Feinstein's book for a dozen film pitches. Bizarre characters leap from the page . . . We knew the arms business was corrupt, but only a book as exhaustively researched as this one is able to reveal just how serious and extensive this corruption really is, and how democracy itself is threatened. The Shadow World is a heroic book by an author who, in writing it, has put himself in the firing line. We surely can't go on leaving this story to Hollywood. The global arms trade totalled $1.6 trillion in 2010, up 53% in 10 years. As the world plunges into a double dip recession, with huge stockpiles of weapons, the script is being written for the ultimate disaster movie. -- Sunday Herald That the world is awash in weapons is not news. But the way weapons large and small flow from the United States, Britain and other producers to the world's villains is ever astonishing. In The Shadow World, Andrew Feinstein gives us a sweeping and troub

<p> This shocking expose unveils a shadow world of corruption, greed, slaughter, and other horrors, tawdry and gruesome in its criminality. It must be brought to a quick and final end. --Noam Chomsky A devastating and scrupulously documented account of the greed, venality, and rampant corruption pervading the global arms trade...A brilliant and massively important book. --Andrew J. Bacevich, Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret.), and author of Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War Feinstein writes with a crusading spirit and a depth of detail that lend The Shadow World urgency and authority....A comprehensive treatment of the arms trade, possibly the most complete account that has ever been written. -- The Washington Post<p> <p> Feinstein makes his case with an impressive amount of detailed research and a gift for narrative that make his findings hard to dismiss. -- Foreign Affairs<p> <p> An eye-opener...Everyone would do well to read this book and self-educate on what this world is all about, and then take some action in the voting booth....Tremendous. -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette <br> <p> Gripping... Feinstein has succeeded in writing a book that analyses the international arms market with a level of detail and a degree of referencing that may well be unique--what you rarely find in a book aimed at a wide readership... it is a singularly powerful study, and deserves to be ready by anyone who wants to see light shining on such a shadowy world... Impressive. --Paul Rogers, The Independent (London) <p> There is enough in Feinstein's book for a dozen film pitches. Bizarre characters leap from the page.... Remarkable and courageous... A heroic book by an author who, in writing it, has placed himself in the firing line. -- The Sunday Herald (Scotland) <p> I initially expected that the title The Shadow World was hyperbolic. It is not. What Feinstein describes is the underbelly of globalization... The facts are so astonishing that they speak for themsel

<p> This shocking expose unveils a shadow world of corruption, greed, slaughter, and other horrors, tawdry and gruesome in its criminality. It must be brought to a quick and final end. ---Noam Chomsky A devastating and scrupulously documented account of the greed, venality, and rampant corruption pervading the global arms trade...A brilliant and massively important book. ---Andrew J. Bacevich, Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret.), and author of Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War Feinstein writes with a crusading spirit and a depth of detail that lend The Shadow World urgency and authority....A comprehensive treatment of the arms trade, possibly the most complete account that has ever been written. --- The Washington Post<p> <p> Feinstein makes his case with an impressive amount of detailed research and a gift for narrative that make his findings hard to dismiss. --- Foreign Affairs<p> <p> An eye-opener...Everyone would do well to read this book and self-educate on what this world is all about, and then take some action in the voting booth....Tremendous. --- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Andrew Feinstein is the author of After the Party, a political memoir. He is currently an Open Society Institute Fellow and the founding codirector of Corruption Watch in London.

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