Everybody Loves Our Dollars | Oliver Bullough

Everybody Loves Our Dollars: How Money Laundering Won

Extended Synopsis

In Everybody Loves Our Dollars: How Money Laundering Won, bestselling author Oliver Bullough investigates the pervasive shadow financial system that enables organized criminals to move vast fortunes across the globe. Despite decades of international efforts to eradicate money laundering, the practice has become more ubiquitous and sophisticated than ever. Bullough pulls back the curtain on the innovative methods criminals use to clean their cash and transform ill-gotten gains into legitimate wealth.

Drawing on complex court records and first-hand accounts from prosecutors, serious fraud officers, and convicted money launderers, this investigative work connects dots across a global landscape—from illegal logging in Papua New Guinea and real estate speculation in Vancouver to capital flight from China and funding for terrorism in the Middle East. This book challenges our understanding of the global economy and argues that crime might stop paying only if we are willing to confront the tunnels running through the heart of our financial systems.

Key Features

• Investigative Reporting: Meticulous research based on court records and exclusive accounts.
• Global Scope: Traces illicit financial flows from Southeast Asia to North America and the Middle East.
• Critical Analysis: Provides a sobering examination of why anti-money laundering efforts have largely failed.

Reader Targeting

• Readers interested in investigative journalism and systemic global corruption.
• Students of political economy, criminology, and international relations.
• Fans of the author's previous works, such as Moneyland and Butler to the World.

About the Author

Oliver Bullough is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Butler to the World and Moneyland. He has also authored acclaimed books on the former Soviet Union, including The Last Man in Russia and Let Our Fame Be Great. His investigative journalism is featured regularly in The Guardian, The New York Times, and GQ.

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