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EARLY PRAISE FOR CUCKOOLAND ‘Burgis’s book is a work of gripping, page-turning genius that deftly explains exactly how the super-rich have bought up our democracies and sought to hijack the truth by imposing their own versions of reality, engaging in lawfare to censor anyone who might challenge them. Oligarchs will read this book and weep at how their hollow tactics have been exposed’ Catherine Belton, bestselling and prize-winning author of Putin’s People PRAISE FOR BURGIS’ PREVIOUS BOOK KLEPTOPIA A Sunday Times bestseller ‘A ghastly and very important story’ Guardian ‘A meticulously reported piece of investigative journalism written in the style of a fast-paced thriller … Gripping … Kleptopia is not a far away republic in central Asia; it is all around us’ The Times ‘I don’t do book reviews. But I am reading Kleptopia very slowly as I have to keep picking my jaw up off the floor … Fascinating. Terrifying’ Paul Lewis ‘A must-read for anyone wanting to better understand what has already happened here in America and what lies ahead if Trump is reelected in November … A magisterial account of the money and violence behind the world’s most powerful dictatorships … Meticulously reported’ Washington Post ‘The architects of our national security would do well to bring to their meetings a well-thumbed copy … It unpicks the filthy flipside of globalisation … Incendiary’ Edward Lucas, The Times ‘Does the job brilliantly … with a hero straight out of a John le Carré novel … Wonderfully if grimly entertaining’ Economist

‘No one has written a book like Cuckooland. Serious… but it is also at times very funny' SUNDAY TIMES ‘Savagely funny… Amersi’s obscenity-laden threats against Burgis sparkle through the buoyant prose of Cuckooland. Burgis has somehow managed to make this meticulously researched, sordid tale entertaining. Written as a pacy thriller that communicates the deluded, self-important tone of its subjects, he renders Amersi as both menacing and ridiculous: preening, thin-skinned, panicky' FINANCIAL TIMES 'The world Burgis reveals is a complex and murky one. To write about this world is to be watched, is to be researched, to be threatened by shockingly expensive lawyers' GUARDIAN ‘Burgis is one of our finest investigative journalists, a muck-raker who can also turn a caustic phrase… Taken together, his books are chapters in a sustained, convincing story about the ways extreme wealth reshapes the nation' NEW STATESMAN 'An amazing book… a very beautifully written account of how money works within that [Tory] party' RORY STEWART, THE REST IS POLITICS ‘Written as a true-life thriller, Cuckooland reveals a secret world of access and influence, where inconvenient facts can be white-washed if you have the right connections and resources… A vital book for this election year’ ANNE APPLEBAUM ‘I read it in one sitting – and couldn’t put it down. Astonishing’ PETER FRANKOPAN 'Cuckooland exposes one of the very gravest dangers of our era: the way the rich and powerful try to suppress the truth and rewrite objective reality. In this lively, scathing account… fearless' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE

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Tom Burgis won a fellowship at the Financial Times in 2006, and has worked on the paper ever since. He has reported from London, Brussels, South America and Africa, writing on the privation and conflict that accompanies the resource trade.His work has appeared in the Telegraph, the Independent, the Observer, the New Statesman, the Big Issue and Open Democracy, and in 2010 he was shortlisted for ‘Young Journalist of the Year’ at the British Press Awards.

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