{"product_id":"very-bad-people","title":"Very Bad People","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*****\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eVery Bad People \u003c\/i\u003ewould be a hugely enjoyable thriller if it wasn't all true... Thank heavens there are Very Good People like Patrick Alley and his astonishingly courageous colleagues.' - \u003cb\u003eIsabella Tree author of \u003ci\u003eWilding\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The story told in this book of three youthful idealists who go from eating cold baked beans in a drafty London flat to the Thai-Cambodian border where they posed as traders in illegally felled timber is simply riveting. Don't miss it.' - \u003cb\u003eMisha Glenny author of \u003ci\u003eMcMafia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArms trafficking offshore accounts and luxury property deals.  Super-yachts private jets and super-car collections. Blood diamonds suspect oil deals deforestation and murder. This is the world of Global Witness the award-winning organisation dedicated to rooting out worldwide corruption. And this is co-founder Patrick Alley's revealing inside track on a breath-taking catalogue of modern super-crimes - and the 'shadow network' that enables them. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVERY BAD PEOPLE is about following the money going undercover in the world's most dangerous places and bringing down the people behind the crimes.  Case by case we see maverick investigators pitched against warlords grifters and super-villains who bear every resemblance to \u003ci\u003eThe Night Manager\u003c\/i\u003e's Richard Roper. One dictator's son spent $700 million in just four years on his luxury lifestyle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs they unravel crooked deals of labyrinthine complexity the team encounter well-known corporations whose operations are no less criminal than the Mafia.  This network of lawyers bankers and real estate agents help park dirty money in London New York or in offshore accounts safe from prying eyes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePatrick Alley's book is a brilliant authoritative and fearless investigation into the darkest workings of our world - and an inspiration to all of us who want to fight back.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eVery Bad People\u003c\/i\u003e shines a light on the real life dramas that are truly more alarming than the pages of fiction - it is a shocking important and page-turning book that gives a unique insight into a hidden world of criminality and into the shadow networks that really run our world.' - \u003cb\u003eJeff Skoll Founder and Chairman Participant Media Skoll Foundation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Part true crime tale part investigative procedural this is the account of the brilliant and necessary superheroes of Global Witness whose superpower is the truth.' \u003cb\u003e- Edward Zwick Director of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlood Diamond\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Stories such as those you will read here are more usually found in the pages of thrillers but these stories are frighteningly and unfortunately true. Corruption is one of the greatest enemies of democracy to win the fight we need champions like Global Witness.' - \u003cb\u003eGeorge Soros\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eVery Bad People\u003c\/i\u003e reads like a non-stop high-speed chase as our fighters against corruption hunt down a litany of criminals and con-men some on the fringes of our society some embedded high up within it. It's a great story and an important one.' - \u003cb\u003eDavid Farr \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eScreenwriter \u003ci\u003eThe Night Manager\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Global Witness are fearless.' - \u003cb\u003eGordon Roddick Campaigner and Co-Founder of the Body Shop\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u0026gt;","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44787556090035,"sku":"9781913183486","price":1199.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/blk_imp_17477378669781913183486.jpg?v=1762821498","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/very-bad-people","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}