The book features interviews with many high-profile figures such as Henry Kissinger from Kennard's unbridled access over four years to the global elite.

Writer, political activist and newspaper columnist Owen Jones described the book as a "A crucial exposé of the powerful, of injustice, and of the war against the poor.

It should inspire all of us to fight back" while author, political activist and filmmaker Naomi Klein said "In this important book, Kennard explores the direct impacts of militarised, globalised American capitalism on some of the most battered parts of our world.

With devastating precision and a formidable sense of urgency, he reports on corporate shock doctors in Haiti, imperialist drug warriors in Honduras, pillaging coal and mining giants in southern Africa and Appalachia—and so much more.

[1] In The Guardian, Steven Poole argued that "it gets quite difficult to keep all the facts consistent with a single conspiriological explanation for everything" and is critical of alleged Anti-Americanism in the book, but praises other elements such as exposure of capitalist hypocrisy and exploitation in the developing world.