Oil is the lifeblood of modern civilization, and the industry that
supplies it has been the subject of intense interest and scrutiny,
as well as countless books. And yet, almost no attention has been
paid to little-known characters vital to the industry-secretive
fixers and oil traders, lobbyists and PR agents, gangsters and
dictators-allied with competing governments and multinational
corporations. Virtually every stage in oil's production process,
from discovery to consumption, is greased by secret connections,
corruption, and violence, even if little of that is visible to the
public. The energy industry, to cite just one measure, violates the
US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act more often than any other economic
sector, even weapons. This book sets out to tell the story of this
largely hidden world. Based on trips to New York, Houston, New
Orleans, Paris, Geneva, and Phnom Penh, among other far-flung
locales, The Secret World of Oil includes up-close portraits of
Louisiana oilmen and their political handlers; an urbane,
captivating London fixer; and an oil dictator's playboy son who had
to choose among more than three dozen luxury vehicles before
heading out to party in Los Angeles. Supported by funding from the
prestigious Open Society Foundations, this is both an entertaining
global travelogue and a major work of investigative reporting.
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