From the corridors of global finance to the backrooms of political scandal, Bankers, Bagmen and Bandits rips away the facade of respectability cloaking the modern world economy. In this scathing, sharply written exposé, acclaimed economic historian R.T. Naylor leads readers through the dark alleys of international commerce, where banks, corporations, governments, and criminals collide in pursuit of power and profit. Building on his groundbreaking work Hot Money, Naylor exposes how money laundering, drug trafficking, arms deals, and covert operations intertwine with mainstream business and statecraft. With mordant wit and piercing analysis, he skewers the Reagan-Bush era's foreign policy disasters, unearths Canada's homegrown corruption, and lambasts the greed-soaked merger mania of Bay Street. Few escape unscathed?oil companies, central bankers, political elites, and even the media are held to account for their complicity in a global system that rewards exploitation and conceals injustice. Blistering, bold, and brutally honest, Bankers, Bagmen and Bandits is both a riotous takedown of conventional economic wisdom and a chilling guide to the real workings of international power.