A searing exposé of the global web of traders, bankers, middlemen, despots, and corporate raiders pillaging Africa's vast natural wealth.

"A brave, defiant book." --The New York Times

Africa is the world's poorest continent and yet, arguably, its richest. Its abundance of natural resources has attracted foreign oilmen, oligarchs, and jet-setting executives, as well as local despots and militiamen--all seeking to gorge on the continent's reserves of oil, gas, metals, and precious stones.

In The Looting Machine, Tom Burgis takes readers on a gripping journey into the dark underbelly of the global economy. He combines deep reporting with a gripping narrative, traveling from the killing fields of Congo and crude-slicked creeks of Nigeria to the anonymous boardrooms and glittering headquarters of multinational corporations that harvest Africa's oil and minerals. The Looting Machine is a blistering investigation into the plunder of a continent and its terrible human toll.