Vultures' Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores

by Greg Palast

Book Overview

The New York Times bestselling author of Armed Madhouse offers a globetrotting, Sam Spade-style investigation that blows the lid off the oil industry, the banking industry, and the governmental agencies that aren't regulating either. This is the story of the corporate vultures that feed on the weak and ruin our planet in the process-a story that spans the globe and decades. For Vultures' Picnic , investigative journalist Greg Palast has spent his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525952071
• ISBN13: 9780525952077
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.3" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher