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Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy

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I Index Overall Rating

Readers

92/100

Critics

40/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Craig Whitlock

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster

Date:

May 14, 2024

An account of one of the biggest public corruption scandals in American history, exposing how a charismatic Malaysian defense contractor bribed scores of high-ranking military officers, defrauded the US Navy of at least $50 million, and jeopardized our nation's security.

What The Reviewers Say

Nicolas Niarchos,
The New York Times Book Review
A masterly investigation into one of the Navy’s worst scandals in modern times.
Kate Bachelder Odell,
The Wall Street Journal
Highly readable.
Larry Matthews,
Washington Independent Review of Books
[Whitlock's] research and detail are impressive and give this book weight and importance.

Publishers Weekly
Rollicking.