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Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security Fiction_Gift_Guide "This is a book toWinner of the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest. "I can't imagine a more important book for our time." Sebastian Junger The world is blowing up. Every day a new blaze seems to ignite: the bloody implosion of Iraq and Syria; the East West standoff in Ukraine; abducted schoolgirls in Nigeria. Is there some thread tying these frightening international security crises together? In a riveting account that weaves history with fast