Carol, the lover of conspiracy theories and business and US-Brit basher, brings up the penny-dreadfuls of writers like Perkins, whose "yarn," says Publishers Weekly and most reviewers, "is ultimately unconvincing except to conspiracy buffs." John Le Carré, at least, writes well.
Reviewing Perkins' later work, "The Secret History of the American Empire," the New York Times reviewer, in a hilarious column, says, "Perkins, like Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte and many other titans who irrevocably altered the course of history,"... spent several years working for the Peace Corps... apparently doing good things.... "He spent most of the 1970s and '80s helping the evil corporatocracy that runs the Secrut American Empire establish suzerainity over the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South America and Africa." ... he had a Saul of Tarsus-type conversion"... , since then he has been on the side of the angels. "So Perkins falls into the same category as St. Ignatius Loyola, St. Augustine and Charles Colson: He is an unimpeachable expert on virtue...." "It's surprising that he even charges money for the book. It was probably his publisher's idea. Corporatocratic swine."

With regard to Hiatt's book, globalization and global debt financing are better understood from a good textbook. The world is restructuring and the essays in this book nibble at the problems arising but serve no real purpose by relating the apples of implementation with the oranges of local corruption conflicting cultures.