Late one evening, investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer receives an
anonymous message offering him access to secret data. Through encrypted
channels, he then receives documents revealing how the president of
Argentina has sequestered millions of dollars of state money for private use.
This is just the beginning.
Obermayer and fellow Süddeutsche journalist Frederik Obermaier find
themselves immersed in the secret world where complex networks of shell
companies help the super-rich to hide their money. Faced with the contents
of the largest data leak in history, they activate an international network of
journalists to follow every possible line of enquiry. Operating in the strictest
secrecy for over a year, they uncover cases involving European prime
ministers and international dictators, emirs and kings, celebrities and
aristocrats. The real-life thriller behind the story of the century, The Panama
Papers is an intense, unputdownable account that proves, once and for all,
that there exists a small elite living by a different set of rules and blows their
secret world wide open.