Cuckooland

From the author of Kleptopia, Cuckooland is a deeply reported true-story about a world where the rich believe they can buy everything – including the truth. Tom Burgis follows a lead across the Kremlin, Kathmandu, Stockholm, the Steppe and a royal retreat in Scotland, uncovering how vast sums of money flow between multinational corporations, ex-Soviet dictators and the west’s ruling elites. The book portrays how powerful figures seek to define what is knowable, what is told about war, money and power, and what remains hidden. It reveals a landscape where the truth can be bent, controlled, or silenced, and where globalisation and technological change threaten the foundation of free societies: that the truth belongs to the many, not the few. It is described as a true-life thriller that reads with the tension of fiction while grounding its drama in extensive reporting.

The narrative traverses blood-soaked towns, courts, and rooms of influence, showing how the lords of Cuckooland attempt to decree permissible stories and realities. It highlights a global investigation into how truth is manufactured and distributed, and what that means for accountability and democracy.

Features

• True-life thriller about the power to bend reality
• Deeply reported investigation by Tom Burgis
• Global scope from Kremlin to Scotland
• Explores how truth is controlled by the rich
• Links money flows between oligarchs, multinationals, dictators
• Reads like a thriller