Andrew Feinstein - The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade

THE SHADOW WORLD is the harrowing, behind-the-scenes tale of the global arms trade. Pulling back the curtain on this secretive world, Andrew Feinstein reveals the corruption and the cover-ups behind weapons deals ranging from the largest in history - between the British and Saudi governments - to BAE's controversial transactions in South Africa, Tanzania and eastern Europe, and the revolving-door relationships that characterise the US Congressional-Military-Industrial Complex. He exposes in forensic detail both the formal government-to-government trade in arms and the shadow world of illicit weapons dealing - and lays bare the shocking and inextricable links between the two.

Based on path-breaking reporting and unprecedented access to top-secret information and major players in the weapons business, including arms dealers who have never been interviewed before, The Shadow World places us in the midst of the arms trade's dramatic wheeling and dealing, ranging from corporate boardrooms to seedy out-of-the-way hotels via far-flung offshore havens, and reveals the profound danger this network represents to all of us.

Praise for AFTER THE PARTY

After the Party is, despite its subject, grippingly readable. It is not beautifully written, but then it doesnt need to be. All that is needed is clarity and passion and for the most part it has that, and more. Cape Argus

a painfully honest and touching memoir Financial Mail

Feinstein has put in a great effort in telling a complicated, politically heavy and legally challenging story in a way that is accessible to ordinary readers. City Press

After the Party is essentially a murder story: the slow murder of democracy and good governance by political poisoning and backstabbing, and of hundreds of thousands of people by AIDS. The Citizen

It is gripping reading and Feinstein writes simply and clearly about a complex issue. Read it and be afraid, very afraid. Tabletalk

Members of the ANC who do not want to question the organisation should not read this book. But all other South Africans who would like to share Mr Cleans view of the world, its a gripping and astonishing read. Pretoria News

After the Party is an intelligent, witty and honest account, laced with personal anecdotes about becoming a party man. Read it and weep. GQ magazine

1. Payment chain for the Al Yamamah deal

2. False end-user certificate used by Leonid Minin to transport weapons through the Ivory Coast to Liberia

3. BAEs web of payments in Tanzania

4. BAEs Eastern European network

5. Randy Cunninghams bribe menu

6. Comparative job creation figures for defence and other sectors in the US

7. US Department of Defense budget and spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

8. Share price movement in BAE, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman