Secrecy World

Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite

By: Jake Bernstein

Narrated by: Jake Bernstein

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jake Bernstein takes listeners inside the scandalous world revealed by the Panama Papers, a landscape of illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global scale.

A hidden circulatory system flows beneath the surface of global finance, carrying trillions of dollars from drug trafficking, tax evasion, bribery, and other illegal enterprises. This network masks the identities of the individuals who benefit from these activities, aided by bankers, lawyers, and auditors who get paid to look the other way. In Secrecy World, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Jake Bernstein explores this shadow economy and how it developed, drawing on millions of leaked documents from the files of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca - a trove now known as the Panama Papers - as well as other journalistic and government investigations. Bernstein shows how shell companies allow the uber wealthy and celebrities to escape taxes and provide cover for illicit activities on a massive scale by crime bosses and corrupt politicians across the globe.

Bernstein has traveled to Latin America and Europe and within the United States to uncover how these strands fit together - who is involved, how they operate, and the real-world impact. He also recounts how Mossack Fonseca was finally exposed and what lies ahead for the corporations, banks, law firms, individuals, and governments that were implicated.

Secrecy World offers a disturbing and sobering view of how the world really works and raises crucial questions about financial and legal institutions we may once have trusted. This audiobook discusses the fragile scaffolding upholding any tax haven, the flexible laws of banking, and the radiating impact of an international financial scandal.

©2017 Journo Productions, LLC (P)2017 Macmillan Audio

Interesting Reveal of an Unknown World!

Good narration, crazy story. Amazing this went down as I was growing up and I knew nothing about it. Cool to learn about

The best reporting on the subject

Superb investigative journalism. Excellent story telling combined with smart and detailed reporting on the people and the actions past and present

Chapter 10, he is yelling at me.

One-sided, predictable, biased, but interesting. Narration is a little over the top. He mostly goes after easy targets. Takes predictable, acceptable opinions and stances on these easy targets/examples.

Extremely informative

Great book! I remember hearing about the scandal with the Panamá Papers but never knew the details and how really their scam was. Now I have a better understanding on the details and how they grew the firm.

Excellent in all ways!

Absolutely fantastic and its in-depth reporting of something that cannot be done so in the pages of a newspaper