Reading List

Corruption, Kleptocracy, and Illicit Financing

• Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks 

• The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money

• Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us

• The World For Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

• Dirty Gold: The Rise and Fall of an International Smuggling Ring

• Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World 

• Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

• Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures

• American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World’s Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History

• Art & Crime: The Fight Against Looters, Forgers, and Fraudsters in the High Stakes Art World

• Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers, Illicit Money Networks, and the Global Elite

• Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World

• Lucifer’s Banker

• Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible

• McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

Russia

• Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin’s

• Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir

• The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia

• Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped

• Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On The West

• Putin’s War in Syria: Russian Foreign Policy and the Price of America’s Absence

• Russia’s Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy

• From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin’s Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin’s Secret War on the West

• Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin’s Spies

• The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia’s Exiles, Emigres, and Agents Abroad

China

• The Digital Silk Road: China’s Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future

• Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy

• Red Roulette: An Insider’s Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today’s China

• Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the 21st Century

• Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer

• China’s Strategic Arsenal: Worldview, Doctrine, and Systems

• The World According to China

Cybersecurity

• This is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

• Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World

• Dawn of the Code War: America’s Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat

• The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats 

• Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons

• The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

• Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers

• The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age

• Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War

• The Hacked World Order: How Nations Fight, Trade, Maneuver, and Manipulate in the Digital Age

• Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon

• LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media

Cybercrime

• The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal

• Hunting LeRoux: The Inside Story of the DEA Takedown of a Criminal Genius and His Empire

• American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

• Future Crimes: Everything is Connected, Everyone is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It

• Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime – from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door

Cryptocurrency

• Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal and Redemption

• The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze

• Kings of Crypto: One Startup’s Quest to Take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street

Terrorism

• The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

• The Second Coming of the KKK

• Gaza Conflict 2021: Hamas, Israel and Eleven Days of War

• Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

• Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God

• A Woman’s Place: U.S. Counterterrorism Since 9/11

• Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices

• Left of Boom: How a Young CIA Case Officer Penetrated the Taliban and Al-Qaeda

• The Terror Years: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State

Narco-trafficking

• The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth

• Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel

• The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth

• Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America

• ZeroZeroZero: Look at Cocaine and All You See is Powder. Look Through Cocaine and You See the World

• El Chapo: The Untold Story of the World’s Most Infamous Drug Lord

• Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw

Criminal Organizations

• The Corporation: An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld

• Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples’ Organized Crime System

• The Black Hand: The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History

• Gaspipe: Confessions of a Mafia Boss

• Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams

• Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America’s Most Powerful Mafia Empires

• Hunting Whitey: The Inside Story of the Capture & Killing of America’s Most Wanted Crime Boss

• Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series

• The Westies: Inside New York’s Irish Mob

• Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano’s Story of Life in the Mafia

• Yakuza: Japan’s Criminal Underworld

• Giovanni’s Ring: My Life Inside the Real Sopranos 

• Boss of Bosses: The FBI and Paul Castellano

Economic Statecraft

• Treasury’s War: The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare

• The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War

• War by Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft

• The Bankers’ Blacklist: Unofficial Market Enforcement and the Global Fight Against Illicit Financing

• The Art of Sanctions: A View from the Field