The China Contract
The Inside Story of the World's Biggest Financial Scandal ... and How It Was Covered Up
A hidden fugitive, a trail of stolen billions and the secret machinery of global power laid bare.
About the Book
A fugitive hides in the boot of a car, fleeing Kuwait with documents that expose a secret one of the world’s most powerful governments wants buried. When he contacts Clare Rewcastle Brown, the story that emerges is shocking: Chinese state companies helped Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak cover up the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal.
This explosive sequel to The Sarawak Report follows billions laundered through China and Kuwait, crooked infrastructure deals, and the CCP’s use of corruption and influence to subvert foreign governments. From Hollywood excesses to corruption at the heart of Washington DC, and from Kuwaiti political upheaval to anti-SLAPP campaigns defending investigative journalism, Rewcastle Brown exposes the machinery of global kleptocracy and China’s shadow empire.
A real-life thriller of investigative journalism, this book is an urgent warning of how corruption and state power are reshaping democracies and the global order.
About the Author
Clare Rewcastle Brown is a British investigative journalist and founder of Sarawak Report and Radio Free Sarawak, platforms that exposed major corruption in the Malaysian government. Her investigations revealed the 1MDB scandal, which shook the global financial community and contributed to the fall of Malaysia’s government in 2018. Her work has appeared widely and has earned international recognition and numerous awards, including the UN’s Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Anti-Corruption Excellence Award, the Guardian Award for International Fraud Reporting, Great Britain’s Women of the Year Award and the International Press Institute’s Pioneer of Media Freedom Award. Fortune magazine named her one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders.
