A fugitive hides in the boot of a car, fleeing Kuwait with documents that expose a secret one of the world's most powerful governments wants buried. When he contacts Clare Rewcastle Brown, the story that emerges is shocking: Chinese state companies helped Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak cover up the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal.
This explosive sequel to The Sarawak Report follows billions laundered through China and Kuwait, crooked infrastructure deals, and the CCP's use of corruption and influence to subvert foreign governments. From Hollywood excesses to geopolitical manipulation, and from Kuwaiti political upheaval to anti-SLAPP campaigns defending investigative journalism, Clare Rewcastle Brown exposes the machinery of global kleptocracy and China's shadow empire.
A real-life thriller of investigative journalism, this book is an urgent warning of how corruption and state power are reshaping democracies and the global order.
