The Shock Doctrine

The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

By: Naomi Klein

Narrated by: Katherine Fenton

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein, read by Katherine Fenton.

Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally remake our world in their image. They are the shock doctors.

Exposing these global profiteers, Naomi Klein discovered information and connections that shocked even her about how comprehensively the shock doctors' beliefs now dominate our world - and how this domination has been achieved. Raking in billions out of the tsunami, plundering Russia, exploiting Iraq - this is the chilling tale of how a few are making a killing while more are getting killed.

'Packed with thinking dynamite ... a book to be read everywhere' John Berger

'If you only read one non-fiction book this year, make it this one' Metro Books of the Year

'There are a few books that really help us understand the present. The Shock Doctrine is one of those books' John Gray, Guardian

Critic reviews

Impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary as hell

Packed with thinking dynamite … a book to be read everywhere

If you read only one non-fiction book this year, make it this one (, Books of the Year)

There are few books that really help us understand the present. The Shock Doctrine is one of those books (John Gray)

Lucid, calm, impeccably researched, gorgeously readable (, Books of the Year)

A brilliant, brave and terrifying book

Powerful … epic … dramatic

A brilliant book written with a perfectly distilled anger, channelled through hard fact. She has indeed surpassed No Logo

Excoriating … passionate and informed … Her prose packs a punch

Waking up !

This is waking up to smell the coffee kind of listening if there ever was one 👌

Different Perspective of familiar things

The book lays out the concept of shock in a very realistic way by applying the concept to real life situations that lead to crises in different places / time periods / cultures. Good read, recommended.

Must read / listen to

I liked it. It is full of examples, thorough, deep and convincing. The chapter Bush administration and Katrina hurricane was quite surprising to me; it was totally new to me.

Fantastic research

The book is so informative, so enlightening to anyone curious about the truth and squire knowledge about how capitalism works

An absolute must-read for critics of capitalism

I had heard a lot of off-hand references to the Shock Doctrine from many thinkers critical of modern capitalism, and now I see why. This book is an amazingly comprehensive account of the formation of the disaster capitalism operating behind the scenes of all of today's most insidious neoliberal global forces. The book's account ends around 2006, and by the end, your only wish is that it would keep going to provide that same clarity to the years encompassing the great recession and the subsequent set of reactionary right-wing turns in governments around the world. If you want a better sense of how and when democracy and capitalism come into conflict with each other, I can't recommend a better entry point than The Shock Doctrine.