Expect a stunning book from the bestselling author of Kleptopia, Cuckooland. This is a true story about a world where the rich can buy everything, including the truth.

Across the globe, the powerful are making a renewed claim to the greatest prize of all: to own the truth. The power to choose what they want reality to be and to impose that reality on the world.

For three years, Tom Burgis followed a trail that led him ever deeper into Cuckooland - the place where the rich own the truth. The trail took him from the Kremlin to Kathmandu, from Stockholm to the Steppe, from a blood-soaked central square in Uzbekistan to a royal retreat in Scotland. Burgis was chasing oligarchs, developing secret sources, and tracing vast sums of money flowing between multinational corporations, former Soviet dictators, and the elites who rule the West.

This story of truth, secrets, and lies reveals how fragile reality can be. Whether it's torture in Kazakhstan or the UK Supreme Court, the lords of Cuckooland seize control of the truth. They decide which stories will be told about war, money, and power, about what we have the right to know – and, more importantly, what we do not have the right to know.

Cuckooland is a deeply documented work of non-fiction that reads like a thriller. It is a story of how globalization and the technological revolution have combined to endanger the foundations of free societies: that the truth belongs to the many, not the few.

• Pages: 336
• Publication Year: 0826
• Dimensions: 12.9x12.9cm