In the previous edition, John Perkins exposes the destructive machinations of "economic killers": he writes that they are highly paid professionals who siphon trillions of dollars from countries around the world. They use methods such as falsified financial reports, rigged elections, blackmail, extortion, sex, and murder.
Perkins himself dealt with loans: his job was to convince strategically important states to borrow gigantic sums of money for large-scale "science and technology" projects aimed at maintaining the interests of the wealthiest people, while plunging countries into poverty and debt. The more debt a country has, the easier it is to control.
In the new edition, Perkins details how he and others like him carried out their work. The book is supplemented with documentary evidence of the activities of "economic killers" during the period 2004–2015, as well as a scandalous section on how the methods of "economic killers" are now being applied much more actively than ever before - even in America itself. The new material is dedicated to the countries: Seychelles, Honduras, Ecuador, Libya, Turkey, Vietnam, China, the USA, and Western Europe.
Fear and debt - that is what the system of economic killings is built on. We are intimidated into paying any amount of money, incurring any debts. The system of economic killings - a fictitious economy, bribes, surveillance, deception, debts, coups, murders, abuse of military force - has become the dominant economic, state, and social system.
John Perkins was the first to reveal the monstrous cynicism of the secret operations of the special services and oligarchic clans of America that they carry out around the world. In terms of the importance of the schemes he has exposed, he stands alongside modern whistleblowers - Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, who are now hunted by US intelligence services.