16 Best nonfiction books like McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld by Misha Glenny

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McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

By: Misha Glenny

3.41

Format: 32 pages,

If you liked the nonfiction plot in McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld by Misha Glenny , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Freedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre, Larry Collins

1. Freedom at Midnight

By: Dominique Lapierre , Larry Collins

4.20

Format: 32 pages,

A famous, major work on Gandhi, Jinnah, Nehru, Admiral Lord Mountbatten, and the partition of India. read more

Similar categories in Dominique Lapierre's Freedom at Midnight book and Misha Glenny's McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

2. Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia

By: John Dickie

4.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hailed in Italy as the best book ever written about the mafia in any language, Cosa Nostrais a fasc… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel by Tom Wainwright

3. Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel

By: Tom Wainwright

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

What drug lords learned from big business How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in t… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • economics
  • business
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4. McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

By: Misha Glenny

3.41

Format: 32 pages,

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • economics
  • business
Cover of The Panama Papers by Bastian Obermayer, Frederik Obermaier

5. The Panama Papers

By: Bastian Obermayer , Frederik Obermaier

3.90

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Late one evening, investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer receives an anonymous message offering… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business

6. ZeroZeroZero

By: Roberto Saviano

4.00

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

"Scrivere di cocaina e come farne uso. Vuoi sempre piu notizie, piu informazioni, e quelle che trov… read more

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

By: Ioan Grillo

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Hardcover

In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps five hundred body parts in metal … read more

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8. Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy

By: Moisés Naím

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking investigation of how illicit commerce is changing the world by transforming econom… read more

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9. El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency

By: Ioan Grillo

3.69

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

The world has watched stunned at the bloodshed in Mexico. Thirty thousand murdered since 2006; poli… read more

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10. La paranza dei bambini

By: Roberto Saviano

4.79

Format: None pages,

Dieci ragazzini in scooter sfrecciano contromano alla conquista di Napoli. Quindicenni dai sopranno… read more

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Cover of Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything by Oliver Bullough

11. Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything

By: Oliver Bullough

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In his punchy follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough's Butler to the World unravels the dark secre… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • economics
  • business
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12. The Trading Game: A Confession

By: Gary Stevenson

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
Cover of The Pyramid of Lies: Lex Greensill and the Billion-Dollar Scandal by Duncan Mavin

13. The Pyramid of Lies: Lex Greensill and the Billion-Dollar Scandal

By: Duncan Mavin

4.07

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The inside story of one of the superstars of global FinTech, Lex Greensill, and his dramatic fall f… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • economics
  • business
Cover of Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World by Tom Burgis

14. Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

By: Tom Burgis

3.80

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year • An Economist Book of the Year “A must-read for anyo… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • economics
  • business
"When the past threatens to ambush you in the present, change the past."

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

"It was to Blair that Nazarbayev turned for counsel at this delicate moment. The information blackout on Zhanaozen had been insufficient to prevent the basic details leaking out. It was as though some…"

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

"Nazarbayev found that he and his regime had a certain chemistry with figures from Blair’s strand of Western politics: the Third Way. It was a system that purported to wed the humanity of the left to …"

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

"Nazarbayev had learned that Westerners could be just as adept as he was in turning money into power and power back into money. Some, like Dick Evans and Jonathan Aitken, went about it from positions …"

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

Cover of Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy by Matthew  Campbell

15. Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy

By: Matthew Campbell

4.24

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“A triumph of investigative journalism.” —Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billio… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Campbell's Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy book and Misha Glenny's McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • economics
  • business
Cover of Very Bad People: The Inside Story of Our Fight Against the World’s Network of Corruption by Patrick Alley

16. Very Bad People: The Inside Story of Our Fight Against the World’s Network of Corruption

By: Patrick Alley

4.07

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

The gripping and untold story of how Global Witness have uncovered a worldwide network of highly or… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • economics
  • business
Cover of Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How To Take It Back by Oliver Bullough

17. Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How To Take It Back

By: Oliver Bullough

4.20

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

From ruined towns on the edge of Siberia, to Bond-villain lairs in Knightsbridge and Manhattan, som… read more

Similar categories in Oliver Bullough's Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How To Take It Back book and Misha Glenny's McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • economics
  • business
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18. A Likely Lad

By: Pete Doherty

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Peter Doherty's is the last of the great rock 'n' roll stories - bad boy and public enemy. To his d… read more

Similar categories in Pete Doherty's A Likely Lad book and Misha Glenny's McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

  • nonfiction
Cover of Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels by Ioan Grillo

19. Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels

By: Ioan Grillo

4.22

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

“An eye-opening and riveting account of how guns make it into the black market and into the hands o… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of The Lazarus Heist: From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea's Global Cyber War by Geoff    White

20. The Lazarus Heist: From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea's Global Cyber War

By: Geoff White

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In 2014, Sony Pictures Entertainment was brutally hacked, with thousands of computers wiped and the… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • business
Cover of Influence Empire: The Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambition by Lulu Yilun Chen

21. Influence Empire: The Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambition

By: Lulu Yilun Chen

3.96

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

*REVISED AND UPDATED**SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK 2022**A TIMES BUSINESS BOOK… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business

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4.20

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4.80

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Tom Wainwright

4.10

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3.77

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