Investigative journalist Oliver Bullough takes the reader on an adventure through the flip side of the global economy in his latest book Everybody Loves Our Dollars: How Money Laundering Won, an entertaining expose of the dark financial secrets at the heart of the world economy.

Without the existence of money laundering, few crimes of acquisition would be worth the trouble, he explains. These include South America’s drug cartels, Nigerian kleptocrats, Afghan terrorists, and human and animal traffickers the world over.

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, and the system is working better than ever.

Oliver Bullough is the author of the Sunday Times bestsellers Butler to the World and Moneyland.

“Bullough has a remarkable gift of making you laugh – and then making you shout with outrage.”

Peter Pomerantsev, author of How to Win and Information War