An Evening with Oliver Bullough at Waterstones Deansgate

We are delighted to welcome author and Orwell Prize-winning journalist Oliver Bullough to Deansgate, celebrating the release of Everybody Loves Our Dollars: How Money Laundering Won.

The bestselling author of Moneyland and Butler to the World takes readers on another jaw-dropping journey through the darkside of the global economy, shining light on the staggering ineffectiveness of goverments and law enforcent to stop the money-laundering that enables criminals to fund their businesses with ease.

Oliver joins us to discuss this wildly entertaining exposé and answer audience questions, followed by a signing.

Doors at 6pm. 'Ticket with Book' includes a copy of Everybody Loves Our Dollars (RRP £25) to collect at the event.
About Everybody Loves Our Dollars

Without money laundering, few crimes of acquisition would be worth the trouble. South America's drug cartels would be stuffed without it, as would Nigerian kleptocrats, Afghan terrorists, American tax evaders and a whole bestiary of human (and animal) traffickers the world over.

And yet, estimates of the dirty portion of world GDP have held steady at 2%-5% for decades. All efforts at legislation, diplomacy, prosecution and compliance have been a complete flop. It's not a lack of will to stamp it out. It's a lack of insight. So join bestselling investigative journalist Oliver Bullough on a perspective-altering adventure through the flipside of the global economy.

In the criminal world, cash is still king (in fact, crime might now be the main thing cash is good for, and even why it still exists). Barter is pretty good too: vast, continent-wide exchanges of everything from luxury handbags to baby eels support a triangular drug trade linking Europe to the Far East. Cryptocurrencies flow through paper ledgers that would make a Florentine merchant feel at home.

And the system works. Whether you're a fraudster, a cartel boss, a corrupt politician, a kleptocrat or a terrorist mastermind, your options to move and hide your money are more secure and more impenetrable than they have ever been. There has never been a better time to be a criminal. It's time that changed.
About the author

OLIVER BULLOUGH is the author of the Sunday Times bestsellers Butler to the World and Moneyland, as well as two celebrated books about the former Soviet Union: The Last Man in Russia and Let Our Fame Be Great. His journalism appears regularly in the Guardian, The New York Times and GQ.

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Waterstones, 91 Deansgate, Manchester, United Kingdom

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