10 Best White Collar Crime Books
White Collar Crime is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top White Collar Crime audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 10 White Collar Crime audiobooks below.
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The Lucky Laundry
- By: Nathan Lynch
- Narrator: Stig Wemyss
- Length: 11 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 15, 2022
- Language: English
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4.31(44 ratings)
4.31(44 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDHow the Aussie economy got hooked on the world’s dirtiest cash. Longlisted for a 2022 Walkley Award and earning the author the 2022 Financial Crime Fighter Award. In today’s ruthless world of organised crime, the best criminalsHow the Aussie economy got hooked on the world’s dirtiest cash.
Longlisted for a 2022 Walkley Award and earning the author the 2022 Financial Crime Fighter Award.
In today’s ruthless world of organised crime, the best criminals aren’t foolish enough to steal money out of banks. They wear tailored suits, carry briefcases, and discreetly slip money into banks.
Bigwigs, oligarchs and crime syndicates running drugs, trafficking guns and people, arming terrorists and subverting government controls are desperate to put a legitimate face on their wealth. Washing dirty money, moving it around the globe, making it look legitimate is where the action is for both criminals and the authorities chasing them.
Australia is awash with dirty money. It flows through our economy, keeps banks running, powers big business, puts coffee on restaurant tables, seeps into clubs, pubs, sport, the art world and anywhere that value is moved. It infiltrates real estate, costs billions in policing, and takes a terrible toll on Australian lives. What law enforcement agencies might lack in legislation and political will, they make up for with sheer resourcefulness. When they can’t get at the masterminds and bigwigs, they have honed tactics that intercept the flow of illicit cash and aim to drive a wedge between crooks and their ill-gotten wealth.
In The Lucky Laundry, financial crime expert Nathan Lynch delves deep inside this hidden world to explain how dark money has infected the lives of ordinary people – and tainted Australian democracy. He opens the curtain on the hidden world of financial intelligence, where crooks and spooks play a cat-and-mouse game inside the world’s black money markets.
Enter the realm of the agents and undercover operatives who defend our democracy against the corrosive force of billions of dirty dollars.
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Trial by Fire
- By: Scott James
- Narrator: Justin Spencer
- Length: 13 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.27(497 ratings)
4.27(497 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDIn only ninety seconds, a fire in The Station nightclub left one hundred people dead or dying and injured hundreds more. It would take years to find out why–and who was really at fault. All it took for a hundred people to die during a show byIn only ninety seconds, a fire in The Station nightclub left one hundred people dead or dying and injured hundreds more. It would take years to find out why–and who was really at fault.
All it took for a hundred people to die during a show by the hair metal band Great White was a sudden burst from four giant sparklers that ignited the acoustical foam lining the Station nightclub. But who was at fault? And who would pay? This being Rhode Island, the two questions wouldn’t necessarily have the same answer.
Within twenty-four hours, the governor of Rhode Island and the local police chief were calling for criminal charges, although the investigation had barely begun, key evidence still needed to be gathered, and many of the victims hadn’t been identified. Though many parties could be held responsible, fingers pointed quickly at the two brothers who owned the club. But were they really to blame?
Bestselling author and three-time Emmy Award-winning journalist Scott James investigates all the central figures, including the band’s manager and lead singer, the fire inspector, the maker of the acoustical foam, as well as the brothers. Drawing on firsthand accounts, interviews with many involved, and court documents, James explores the rush to judgment about what happened that left the victims and their families, whose stories he also tells, desperate for justice.
Trial By Fire is the heart-wrenching story of the fire’s aftermath because while the fire, one of America’s deadliest, lasted minutes, the search for the truth would take years.
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Fall
- By: John Preston
- Narrator: Simon Bubb
- Length: 11 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: February 09, 2021
- Language: English
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4.23(994 ratings)
4.23(994 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDWinner of the UK’s 2022 Costa Prize for Biography “A portrait of one of the most enigmatic figures in the annals of white-collar crime. . . . A well-researched, compelling book that uncovers many mysteries about a mediaWinner of the UK’s 2022 Costa Prize for Biography
“A portrait of one of the most enigmatic figures in the annals of white-collar crime. . . . A well-researched, compelling book that uncovers many mysteries about a media tycoon.”–Kirkus Reviews
From the acclaimed author of A Very English Scandal, a thrilling and dramatic true-life account of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious media moguls of all time: Robert Maxwell.
In February 1991, Robert Maxwell triumphantly sailed into Manhattan harbor on his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, to buy the ailing New York Daily News. Taxi drivers stopped their cabs to shake his hand, children asked for his autograph, and patrons of the hottest restaurant in Manhattan gave him a standing ovation while he dined. Ten months later, Maxwell disappeared off that same yacht in the middle of the night and was later found dead in the water. As John Preston reveals in this entertaining and revealing biography, Maxwell’s death was as mysterious as his remarkable life.
A tightly paced, addictive saga of ambition, hubris, narcissism, greed, power, and intrigue, Fall recounts Maxwell’s rise and fall and rise and fall again. Preston weaves backwards and forwards in time to examine the forces that shaped Maxwell, including his childhood as a Jew in occupied Eastern Europe through his failed political ambitions in the 1960s which ended in accusations of financial double-dealing, and his resurrection as a media mogul–and on to the family legacy he left behind, including his daughter Ghislaine Maxwell.
Preston chronicles Maxwell’s all-encompassing rivalry with Rupert Murdoch–a battle that ruined Maxwell financially, threatened his sanity and lead, indirectly, to his death. Did Maxwell have a heart attack and fall overboard? Was his death suicide? Or was he murdered–possibly by Mossad or the KGB? Few in the twentieth century journeyed as far from his roots as Robert Maxwell. Yet, as Fall reveals, no one, however rich and powerful, can entirely escape their past.
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American Kleptocracy
- By: Casey Michel
- Narrator: Joe Dwyer
- Length: 9 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: November 23, 2021
- Language: English
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4.2(288 ratings)
4.2(288 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDA remarkable debut by one of America’s premier young reporters on financial corruption, Casey Michel’s American Kleptocracy offers an explosive investigation into how the United States of America built the largest illicit offshoreA remarkable debut by one of America’s premier young reporters on financial corruption, Casey Michel’s American Kleptocracy offers an explosive investigation into how the United States of America built the largest illicit offshore finance system the world has ever known.
“An indefatigable young American journalist who has virtually cornered the international kleptocracy beat on the US end of the black aquifer.”
—The Los Angeles Review of BooksFor years, one country has acted as the greatest offshore haven in the world, attracting hundreds of billions of dollars in illicit finance tied directly to corrupt regimes, extremist networks, and the worst the world has to offer. But it hasn’t been the sand-splattered Caribbean islands, or even traditional financial secrecy havens like Switzerland or Panama, that have come to dominate the offshoring world. Instead, the country profiting the most also happens to be the one that still claims to be the moral leader of the free world, and the one that claims to be leading the fight against the crooked and the corrupt: the USA.
American Kleptocracy examines just how the United States’ implosion into a center of global offshoring took place: how states like Delaware and Nevada perfected the art of the anonymous shell company, and how post-9/11 reformers watched their success usher in a new flood of illicit finance directly into the U.S.; how African despots and post-Soviet oligarchs came to dominate American coastlines, American industries, and entire cities and small towns across the American Midwest; how Nazi-era lobbyists birthed an entire industry of spin-men whitewashing trans-national crooks and despots, and how dirty money has now begun infiltrating America’s universities and think tanks and cultural centers; and how those on the front-line are trying to restore America’s legacy of anti-corruption leadership–and finally end this reign of American kleptocracy.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press
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Don’t Be a Victim
- By: Nancy Grace
- Narrator: Nancy Grace
- Length: 16 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: September 22, 2020
- Language: English
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3.93(128 ratings)
3.93(128 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDDiscover gripping true crime stories and the surprising tools you need to keep you and your family safe — from iconic legal commentator, TV journalist, and New York Times bestselling author Nancy Grace. Nancy Grace wasn’t always theDiscover gripping true crime stories and the surprising tools you need to keep you and your family safe — from iconic legal commentator, TV journalist, and New York Times bestselling author Nancy Grace.
Nancy Grace wasn’t always the iconic legal commentator we know today. One moment changed her entire future forever: her fiance Keith was murdered just before their wedding. Driven to deliver justice for other crime victims, Nancy became a felony prosecutor and for a decade, put the “bad guys” behind bars in inner-city Atlanta.Now, with a new and potentially life-saving book, Nancy puts her crime-fighting expertise to work to empower you stay safe in the face of daily dangers. Packed with practical advice and invaluable prevention tips, Don’t Be a Victim shows you how to:- Fend off threats of assaults, car-jack and home invasion
- Defend yourself against online stalking, computer hackers and financial fraudsters
- Stay safe in your own home, at school and other public settings like parking garages, elevators and campsites
- Protect yourself while shopping, driving and even on vacation
With insights on so many potential threats, you’ll be empowered to protect yourself and your children at home and in the world at large by being proactive! Nancy’s crime-fighting expertise helps keep you, your family, and those you love out of harm’s way.... Read more -
Bad Paper
- By: Jake Halpern
- Narrator: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: October 14, 2014
- Language: English
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3.8(854 ratings)
3.8(854 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDJake Halpern introduces us to a former banking executive and a former armed robber who become partners and go in quest of ‘paper’ – the uncollected debts that are sold off by banks for pennies on the dollar. As Halpern shows, theJake Halpern introduces us to a former banking executive and a former armed robber who become partners and go in quest of ‘paper’ – the uncollected debts that are sold off by banks for pennies on the dollar. As Halpern shows, the world of consumer debt collection is a wild and unregulated shadowland, where operators may misrepresent a debtor’s situation, make illegal threats, and even lay claim to debts that are not theirs to collect in the first place. Halpern follows his collectors as they intimidate competitors with weapons, manage high-pressure call centers, and scheme new ways to benefit from American’s debt-industrial complex. He also explores the history of collection agencies and reveals the human cost of a system that leaves hardworking Americans with little opportunity to retire their debts in a reasonable way.
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Lawyer X
- By: Anthony Dowsley
- Narrator: Abbe Holmes
- Length: 14 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 07, 2020
- Language: English
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3.71(140 ratings)
3.71(140 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDUnderbelly meets Molly’s Game – the true crime investigation that rewrote the story of Melbourne’s infamous gangland war and triggered a royal commission. Melbourne’s gangland war was an era dominated by murders, stings,Underbelly meets Molly’s Game – the true crime investigation that rewrote the story of Melbourne’s infamous gangland war and triggered a royal commission.
Melbourne’s gangland war was an era dominated by murders, stings, hits, drug busts, corruption and greed – inspiring bestselling books and even a popular TV series, Underbelly. It took the police a decade to curtail the violence and bring down criminal kingpins Carl Williams, Tony Mokbel and their accomplices. When the police finally closed the case file, just how they really won the war, with the help of an unlikely police informer, would become a closely guarded secret and its exposure, the biggest legal scandal of our time.
Lawyer X is the scandalous, true story of how a promising defence barrister from a privileged background broke all the rules – becoming both police informer and her client’s lover – sharing their secrets and shaping the gangland war that led to sensational arrests and convictions. The story of how Nicola Gobbo became Lawyer X, and why, is a compelling study in desperation and determination.
Lawyer X is the definitive story of Melbourne’s gangland wars and its most glamorous and compelling central character, based on the ground-breaking work of investigative journalists Anthony Dowsley and Patrick Carlyon, who broke the story for the Herald Sun in 2014, and their five-year struggle to reveal the truth about the identity of Lawyer X.
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Practice to Deceive
- By: Ann Rule
- Narrator: Anne Twomey
- Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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3.51(2908 ratings)
3.51(2908 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.95 USDThis New York Times bestseller–from “America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews) and the author of The Stranger Beside Me–is a shocking tale of greed, sex, scandal, and murder on an isolated and eerie island inThis New York Times bestseller–from “America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews) and the author of The Stranger Beside Me–is a shocking tale of greed, sex, scandal, and murder on an isolated and eerie island in the Pacific Northwest. The basis for the Lifetime movie event Circle of Deception.
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With more than 50 million copies of her books in print–from her chilling personal account of knowing Ted Bundy to sixteen collections in her #1 bestselling Crime Files series–Ann Rule is a legendary true crime writer. Here, in Practice to Deceive, Rule unravels a shattering case of Christmastime murder off the coast of Washington State–presented with the clarity, authority, and emotional depth that Rule’s readers expect.
Nestled in Puget Sound, Whidbey Island is a gem of the Pacific Northwest. Accessible only by ferry, it is known for its artistic communities and stunning natural beauty. Life there is low-key, and the island’s year-round residents tend to know one another’s business. But when the blood-drenched body of Russel Douglas was discovered the day after Christmas in his SUV in a hidden driveway near Whidbey’s most exclusive mansion–a single bullet between his eyes–the whole island was shocked. At first, police suspected suicide, tragically common at the height of the holiday season. But when they found no gun in or near the SUV, Russel’s manner of death became homicide.
Brenna Douglas, Russel’s estranged and soon-to-be-ex wife, allowed him to come home for a Christmas visit with their children. The couple owned the popular Just B’s salon. Brenna’s good friend Peggy Sue Thomas worked there, and Brenna complained often to her that Russel was physically and emotionally abusive. Peggy Sue’s own life has been one of extremes. Married three times, hers is a rags-to-riches-and-back-again tale in which she’s played many roles, from aircraft mechanic to “drop-dead gorgeous” beauty queen as a former Ms. Washington. But in 2003, her love affair with married guitarist Jim Huden led the two Whidbey Island natives to pursue their ultimate dreams of wealth and privilege–even at the expense of human life.
Unravel the tangled web woven by Russel Douglas’s murder in Practice to Deceive, a heart pounding true-crime tour de force. -
Inside the NRA
- By: Joshua L. Powell
- Narrator: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: September 08, 2020
- Language: English
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3.06(121 ratings)
3.06(121 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDA shocking expose of rampant, decades-long incompetence at the National Rifle Association, as told by a former member of its senior leadership. Joshua L. Powell is the NRA–a lifelong gun advocate, in 2016, he began his new role as a seniorA shocking expose of rampant, decades-long incompetence at the National Rifle Association, as told by a former member of its senior leadership.
Joshua L. Powell is the NRA–a lifelong gun advocate, in 2016, he began his new role as a senior strategist and chief of staff to NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre.
What Powell uncovered was horrifying: “the waste and dysfunction at the NRA was staggering.”
INSIDE THE NRA reveals for the first time the rise and fall of the most powerful political organization in America–how the NRA became feared as the Death Star of Washington lobbies and so militant and extreme as “to create and fuel the toxicity of the gun debate until it became outright explosive.”
INSIDE THE NRA explains this intentional toxic messaging was wholly the product of LaPierre’s leadership and the extremist branding by his longtime PR puppet master Angus McQueen. In damning detail, Powell exposes the NRA’s plan to “pour gasoline” on the fire in the fight against gun control, to sow discord to fill its coffers, and to secure the presidency for Donald J. Trump.
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I Did It
- By: Gina Champion-Cain
- Narrator: Neil Senturia
- Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDI Did It is the story of Gina Champion-Cain, the mastermind behind the largest woman-led Ponzi scheme in US history–$400 million. This real-life story includes a multitude of participants, banks, hedge funds, egomaniacs, and small-time crooks,I Did It is the story of Gina Champion-Cain, the mastermind behind the largest woman-led Ponzi scheme in US history–$400 million. This real-life story includes a multitude of participants, banks, hedge funds, egomaniacs, and small-time crooks, all fueled by greed, stupidity, and a keen desire to look the other way. And even when they were looking in the right direction, all of these people and entities saw nothing. Gina was the Penn and Teller of misdirection, acting with caring behavior to other people (while bilking her investors), creating philanthropic endeavors and single-mindedly pursuing her dream of building an empire, taking it public, and cashing out all the investors.
In August 2019, Gina’s seven-year program of selling phony liquor license loans came to an end when the SEC, the US Attorney’s Office, and the FBI filed suit and shut it down. In San Diego, Gina, then fifty-four, was an icon. To the outside world, this beautiful, charismatic woman looked as if she had succeeded in a male-dominated good-old-boys club–building an empire that included real estate, restaurants, and retail; she was a guest economics commentator for the San Diego Union-Tribune; and she served on prestigious corporate and nonprofit boards. The City of San Diego even honored her with her own Gina Champion-Cain Day. She cooked dinner for her husband, Steve, walked the dogs on the beach, and was a role model for young women. But in reality, her empire was a house of cards funded with money from a financial fraud.
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