📱 eBook en inglés THE HOUR OF THE PREDATOR

HOW DO YOU DEFEND DEMOCRACY WHEN THE RULES HAVE CHANGED?

Presidents turning into monarchs. Tech tycoons and autocrats intent on global regime change. Armies of cyber trolls.

The old order is at an end. The Hour of the Predator has come.

Former political advisor Giuliano da Empoli takes us on an insiders journey through this new reality, from the Glass Palace of the UN to the Riyadh Ritz-Carlton, from top secret meetings to violent power struggles. We encounter dictators and tyrants, strongmen and AI billionaires - geopolitical predators, and the flailing leaders who desperately try to appease them.

Just as in the age of the Borgias or the conquistadors, cynical scheming and brute force increasingly determine the course of international affairs. This is an urgent guide to our new world, and our uncertain future.

PRAISE FOR THE HOUR OF THE PREDATOR

In a masterful, evocative narrative, he captures the worst aspects of the conquest led by men like Donald Trump and Sam Altman ― LExpress

Da Empoli is the chronicler of our troubled times [and] weaves a narrative as compelling as a novel or a Greek tragedy―Le Monde

Details with a grim lucidity the many ills afflicting our new world ― Nouvel Obs

A dark and dazzling book that lays bare the predators of our age ― La Tribune

PRAISE FOR THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN

A great book, casting light on the creatures that crawl and slither behind the Kremlins walls, on the mineral hardness of Putin, on the chaos engine that is his way of hurting us. Read this book and you will understand the Russian mind-fuck. Read it ― John Sweeney

A captivating novel that sails close, perhaps too close, to reality ― Financial Times, Books of the Year

His novel has become a guide - devoured by many western politicians - to the mindset of the Kremlin ― Simon Kuper, Lunch with the FT, Financial Times

You need to be credible, to get into a characters head and present their point of view... But it has to be entertaining, and it has to be convincing. His book succeeds on both measures ― Peter Conradi, Sunday Times

I doubt I have anywhere seen a cleverer portrayal of the Russian view of power, politics and the world, or a better explanation of how the col...