Gilby provides a detailed account of the UK’s corrupting impact on the international arms trade…provides a startling account of corruption in one of Britain’s biggest arms deals…meticulously detailed.
– Paul Holtom, Deputy Director, Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University. See the full review in the academic journal Diplomacy & Statecraft (Vol 27, No.1, 2016, pp. 195-196) here.
If you want to understand the unbreakable link between the British arms industry and corruption, you should read Nicholas Gilby’s Deception in High Places, published last year.
– Solomon Hughes, The Morning Star. See the full review here.
well-written, easy-to-read…providing a comprehensive history of corruption in the British arms trade since the 1960s…Gilby has done sterling research
– Ian Pocock, Peace News. See the full review here.
very good: clearly written, massively documented…What can be safely said is impressive enough. I was surprised by how much could be found out given a tenacious researcher and a couple of dead participants in the trade who left revealing documents
– Robin Ramsay, Editor, Lobster Magazine. See the full review here.
the cut-and-thrust of arms deals makes for exciting, if distasteful, reading…Gilby’s book is a much-needed historical briefing of what has gone on
– Alastair Sloan, Middle East Monitor. See the full review here.
a flavor of Le Carre – except it is better because it’s true…Whether as the best history of corruption and bribery, or as a book with general value for anyone interested in British death-dealing, Deception in High Places is essential reading. I can’t recommended it more highly
– Joe Glenton, Contributing Editor, Souciant. See the full review here.
Heroically dogged…assiduously unveils past sins with contemporary consequences – not least our continuing and largely acquiescent relationship with Saudi Arabia and the BAE al-Yamamah arms contract
– Michael Hodges, New Statesman, author of AK-47: the Story of the People’s Gun. See the full review here.
A remarkable book that exposes the trickery, humbug, buck-passing, and cover-ups, by successive British governments as they turned a blind eye, and even encouraged, the payment of bribes to secure British arms contracts, notably with Saudi Arabia, and Iran under the Shah.
– Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian, author of Knee Deep in Dishonour: Scott Report and Its Aftermath. See the full review here.
This book offers a devastating portrait of the UK government’s complicity in arms deal corruption over many decades. This superbly researched must-read account allows the facts to speak for themselves. Nicholas Gilby has performed a valuable service for all of those who wish their government to enforce the law, including in relation to international corruption and human rights.
– Andrew Feinstein, author of The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade and founding Director of Corruption Watch UK
Drawing on a wealth of official documents, Gilby lays bare the subterranean realities of Britain’s arms trade and its corrosive impact on the wider political culture. This is a hugely impressive piece of historical research and a fascinating story.
– Professor Mark Phythian, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester, author of The Politics of British Arms Sales Since 1964
A rich history of a rotten business. Gilby’s meticulous research shows us just how corruption in the arms trade, sustaining some of the world’s most oppressive regimes, festered and grew. And after half a century of complicity and cover-up by the British government, his findings pose the most urgent question of all: why is it still allowed to go on?
– Richard Brooks, Private Eye, author of The Great Tax Robbery: How Britain Became a Tax Haven for Fat Cats and Big Business
For a book on a decade-spanning, convoluted subject, Deception in High Places puts its point across quite directly…The swift punch of a concluding chapter sums up reams of shady cases from the history of the modern arms trade
– Nicole Morris, The Spokesman 128