Dirty Gold
- Author Jay Weaver, Nicholas Nehamas, Jim Wyss and Kyra Gurney
- Narrator Gustavo Rex
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Publish Date 4 March 2021
- Run Time 11 hours and 22 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Drugs trade / drug trafficking, Organized crime, True crime.
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What to expect
Unputdownable, riveting true crime at its best: the ultimate read for summer 2025. 'Astonishing' - Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland and Butler to the World
READERS CAN'T GET ENOUGH:
'A true page turner that reads like an action thriller . . . This book is a MUST READ for everyone!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'I couldn't put this book down. From the real, expertly characterized people and places to the connections drawn to our global systems of commerce, politics, and law enforcement I found Dirty Gold to be captivating from start to finish.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Well-crafted . . . reads like a fiction drama, and explains the illegal gold trade in a way that is easy for a lay person to understand.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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All that glitters is not gold. Gold is the new cocaine - and it's just as lucrative, dangerous, and destructive.
Dirty Gold is a searing expose on the booming gold mining industry and destruction on the land and people of Latin America. It looks closely at a small US firm in Miami that helped transform the city into the nation's No.1 importer of gold into the United States.
The book follows the meteoric rise and fall of a group of drug traders known as 'the three amigos' who laundered narco money through gold illegally brought into the US and raked in millions before they were caught. Whilst they were making their millions, the humanitarian situation in Colombia, Peru, and many other countries deteriorated dramatically.
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An astonishing read full of corruption, greed, strong drink and stronger language -- that reveals the rotten heart of the global economy - Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland
Crackles along . . . they deserve credit for exposing the dark underbelly of the jewellery industry and giving us another glimpse into the real cost of the global obsession with gold - Spectator
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