The Secret World of Oil

by Ken Silverstein

Book Overview

The oil industry provides the lifeblood of modern civilization, and bestselling books have been written about the industry and even individual companies in it, like ExxonMobil. But the modern oil industry is an amazingly shady meeting ground of fixers, gangsters, dictators, competing governments, and multinational corporations, and until now, no book has set out to tell the story of this largely hidden world. The global fleet of some 11,000 tankers--that's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781688672
• ISBN13: 9781781688670
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.6"