The Hidden Globe

Having read it

★★★★☆

A very worthwhile, well-researched, well-written and interesting book that reveals a lot of the surprising levels people, businesses and countries go to to make even more money and be more separated from our collective and shared world and responsibilities so as to avoid taxes, any kind of sensible financial transparency and accountability or even just fair and meaningful social responsibilities.

However, it was just a bit of a shame, despite the author’s knowledge, skills, interest and investigative abilities in the subjects covered, that the book, for me, ended up losing its verve as a singular narrative as the chapters unfolded and ended up feeling a bit like a set of independent articles but with a (token?) nod to some previously mention people and places and Mary Shelley’s, Frankenstein, and its messages acting as the sort of narrative thread to sort of holds its articles, sorry chapters, together!

Still, hopefully efforts and books like the author’s continue to help show, explain and potentially lead to real and effective change to financial and political matters in and around our hidden (and underhand) globe.