The Shadow World
A staggering account of the global arms trade, The Shadow World is Andrew Feinstein’s investigation of a blood-stained business that seems to operate above the law and with apparent impunity.
Fearless and forensic in its exposure of the endemic corruption throughout this deadly industry, The Shadow World reveals the sickening truth behind the multi-million deals and suspect government policies. It is the tale of politicians, industrialists, terrorists and warlords bound together by their lust for power, monetary greed and complete disregard for human life.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu proclaimed The Shadow World as ‘essential reading for anyone who cares about justice, transparency and accountability in both the public and private spheres, and for anyone who believes that it is more important to invest in saving lives than in the machinery of death’. The Sunday Times’s Max Hastings praised the ‘nobility and justice of Feinstein’s sentiments’ while condemning the arms trade as ‘a loathsome commerce conducted by people who wear suits and occupy big boardroom tables, but should have trouble sleeping at night’. The Telegraph commended the book’s ‘incisive reporting [and] admirable research’ while the Independent wrote that ‘Feinstein’s book is a singularly powerful study, and deserves to be read by anyone who wants to see light shining on such a shadowy world’. Iain MacWhirter, writing in the Herald, pronounced The Shadow World ‘a heroic book by an author who, in writing it, has placed himself in the firing line’, while Arundhati Roy judged The Shadow World as ‘chilling, heartbreaking and enraging’.
These photographs show Andrew addressing the Occupy Wall Street movement in November 2011. For more about the book and the latest news on the arms trade please visit The Shadow World website.