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My thanks go to the leaders in this field, who have spent years understanding the offshore system, secrecy jurisdictions, and the Wealth Defense Industry. Several were particularly generous to me in the writing of this book. They include sociologist Brooke Harrington, who is an important voice throughout the book, and “C. Dalton Thompson,” my “John Doe,” for his patience with all my questions. The Tax Justice Network has inspired me for decades, including the individuals John Christensen, and Andres Knobel, the latter for his work on trusts. Journalist Nicholas Shaxson has written the most important big picture books on this topic, starting with Treasure Island and now, The Finance Curse. Other important pioneers and thinkers on whom I have depended include Jim Henry, David Cay Johnston, Senator Carl Levin, and Jeffrey Winters.

Within the US, I have benefited from the community of transparency activists at the table convened by the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition. From our first retreat in a blizzard at Pocantico in 2011 to the present day, I’ve benefited from the work of Gary Kalman, Elise Bean, Conrad Martin, Scott Klinger, and the late Rebecca Wilkins. Thanks for extra conversations with Clark Cascoigne at FACT, and Maureen Heydt at Global Financial Integrity, for sharing an interest in family offices. Thanks to the We’re Not Broke film crew, starting with co-directors Karin Hayes and Vicki Bruce. Thanks to Charles Davidson, Jack Blum, and our Sundance film festival gang.

Bob Lord has been a great colleague and associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. He’s one of the great lawyers working in this area. Several other people get special thanks for reading the whole manuscript and bringing their legal expertise to the conversation. In addition to Bob Lord, my thanks go to Pat Martone; and Marcia Peters brought her dual talents of editorial expert and legal wizardry to the manuscript.

My IPS colleague Sophia Paslaski did amazing first reads and edits and helped whip the citations into shape. Other IPS colleagues whom I want to thank include our Inequality Program team, with Kalena Thomhave, Bob Keener, Sarah Anderson, Sam Pizzigati, John Cavanagh, Tracy Bindel, Kathleen Gaspard, Omar Ocampo, Peter Certo, and Negin Owliaei. Thanks to the Patriotic Millionaires crew, led by Erica Payne, Kelsea-Marie Pym, Morris Pearl, Stephen Price, Pat Martone, Fiona McCarthy, Sam Quigley, Rene Felt, and the rest of the team.

Thanks to George Owers from Polity Press, who invited me to write this book – and to Julia Davies from Polity for our trans-Atlantic correspondence, which helped to nurture this book.

Some personal thanks go to those friends and colleagues who have had me in their corner and cheered this project along. They include Nora Collins, Sam Hannon, Andrew Boyd, Rhea Becker, Danny Faber, Nina Schlegel, Jodi Solomon, Josh Hoxie, Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Dan Petegorsky, Jom Michel, Carol Bell, and many others.

A special thanks to all of us sequestered during the Covid-19 pandemic that accompanied the writing of this book – especially housemates Luke Concannon, Stephanie Hollenberg, Caleb Hannon, and the amazing Mary Wallace Collins, without whom there would be no book.