Books by Craig Unger

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. American Kompromat unravels the Russian-influenced operations that amassed the dirty little secrets of the richest and most powerful men on earth. American Kompromat is based on extended and exclusive interviews with high-level sources in the KGB, CIA, and FBI, as well as lawyers at white-shoe Washington firms, associates of Jeffrey Epstein, and thousands of pages of FBI reports, police investigations, and news articles in English, Russian, and Ukrainian. A narrative offering jaw-dropping context, and set in Upper East Side mansions and private Caribbean islands, gigantic yachts, and private jets, American Kompromat shows that, from Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, Russian operations transformed the darkest secrets of the most powerful people in the world into potent weapons that served its interests. Among its many revelations, American Kompromat addresses what may be the single most important unanswered question of the entire Trump era - and one that Unger argues is even more important now that Trump is out of office: Was Donald Trump a Russian asset? Just how compromised was he? And how could such an audacious feat have been accomplished? To answer these questions and more, Craig Unger reports, is to understand kompromat - operations that amassed compromising information on the richest and most powerful men on earth, and that leveraged power by appealing to what is, for some, the most prized possession of all: their vanity. This is a story that transcends the end of the Trump administration, illuminating a major underreported aspect of Trump's corruption that has profoundly damaged American democracy.

Donald Trumps indsættelse som præsident i USA var kulminationen på Ruslands mangeårige arbejde for at undergrave det vestlige demokrati – en indsats som begyndte for over 30 år siden, da den russiske mafia første gang anvendte Trumps ejendomme til hvidvask. Det er en skræmmende historie, som afslører Trumps forhold til Putins oligarker og mafiaens topfolk, og den bekræfter de mest utrolige af de amerikanske mareridtsforestillinger om onde russiske hensigter.For de fleste vil Den russiske forbindelse være en hårrejsende afsløring af, at Den Kolde Krig ikke sluttede i 1991 – den fik bare nye former – og af at Trumps ejerlejlighedskomplekser blev det perfekte instrument for de milliarder af dollar, som forlod den sammenbrudte Sovjetunion.I bogen afdækker Craig Unger systematisk den stærke alliance mellem de højeste lag af amerikansk politik og de tungeste navne i den russiske mafias frygtindgydende underverden. Han afdækker Donald Trumps beskidte vej fra falleret ejendomsmagnat til USA’s højeste embede. Og han afdækker Ruslands Fugl Føniks-agtige opstigning fra Sovjetunionens aske såvel som dets utrættelige bestræbelser på at hævne sig på Vesten og genvinde sin status som global supermagt. Uden Trump ville Rusland have manglet en afgørende faktor i sit forsøg på at genvinde fortidens storhed. Uden Rusland ville Trump ikke være blevet præsident.