# Backstabbing for Beginners (Media tie-in)

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- Authors: [Michael Soussan](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-soussan)
- Publisher: publicaffairs
- ISBN: 978-15-6858-862-9
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2018-04-12
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A Wall Street Journal best book of the year " What made this episode in our collective history possible was not so much the lies we told one another, but the lies we told ourselves." A recent Brown University graduate, Michael Soussan was elated when he landed a position as a program coordinator for the United Nations' Iraq Program. Little did he know that he would end up a whistleblower in what PBS NewsHour described as the " largest financial scandal in UN history." Breaking a conspiracy of silence that had prevailed for years, Soussan sparked an unprecedented corruption probe into the Oil-for-Food program that exposed a worldwide system of bribes, kickbacks, and blackmail involving ruthless power-players from around the globe. At the crossroads of pressing humanitarian concerns, crisis diplomacy, and multibillion-dollar business interests, Soussan's story highlights core flaws of our international system and exposes the frightening, corrupting power of the black elixir that fuels our world's economy.