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The Hour of the Predator
- Author
- Giuliano Empoli
- Narrator
- Sam Pamphilon
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Publish Date
- 9 October 2025
- Run Time
- 3 hours 9 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
How do you defend democracy when the rules have changed?
Presidents turning into monarchs. Tech tycoons and autocrats intent on global regime change. Armies of cyber trolls.
The old order is at an end. The Hour of the Predator has come.
Former political advisor Giuliano da Empoli takes us on an insider's journey through this new geopolitical reality, from the Glass Palace of the UN to the Riyadh Ritz-Carlton, from top secret meetings to violent power struggles. We encounter dictators and tyrants, strongmen and AI billionaires - geopolitical predators, and the flailing leaders who desperately try to appease them.
Just as in the age of the Borgias or the conquistadors, cynical scheming and brute force increasingly determine the course of international affairs. This is an urgent guide to our new world, and our uncertain future.
Critics Review
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A dark but dazzling account of the current political and geostrategic upheavals
Le Figaro
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A gripping account of how Western elites handed over the keys of power to the new 'tech conquistadors'
Les Echos
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Giuliano da Empoli charts the rise of a chilling new world, forged through an unprecedented alliance between unabashed autocrats in the Trump mould and tech titans like Elon Musk
La Croix
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In a masterful, evocative narrative, he captures the worst aspects of the conquest led by men like Donald Trump and Sam Altman
L'Express
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A luminous thinker, Giuliano da Empoli is the chronicler of our troubled times and weaves a narrative as compelling as a novel or a Greek tragedy
Le Monde
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A dark and dazzling book that lays bare the 'predators' of our age
La Tribune
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Details
- Author
- Giuliano Empoli
- Narrator
- Sam Pamphilon
- Duration
- 3 hours 9 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 October 2025
- ISBN
- 9781805680314
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Genre
- Politics and government, Memoirs
Synopsis
How do you defend democracy when the rules have changed? Presidents turning into monarchs. Tech tycoons and autocrats intent on global regime change. Armies of cyber trolls. The old order is at an end. The Hour of the Predator has come. Former political advisor Giuliano da Empoli takes us on an insider's journey through this new geopolitical reality, from the Glass Palace of the UN to the Riyadh Ritz-Carlton, from top secret meetings to violent power struggles. We encounter dictators and tyrants, strongmen and AI billionaires - geopolitical predators, and the flailing leaders who desperately try to appease them. Just as in the age of the Borgias or the conquistadors, cynical scheming and brute force increasingly determine the course of international affairs. This is an urgent guide to our new world, and our uncertain future.
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