I started reading this book in January 2010 and it was immediately very sobering - the book focussed initially on Haiti as an example of a place beleaguered by corruption, and I was reading it just after the earthquake struck. This set the tone for the book - reading about the problems besetting various nations and knowing that it would be an uphill struggle for any improvement. I found the book rather disheartening; not because the author didn't offer some options for improvement - which he did - but because it seems to be such an enormous task, getting ever larger. As I write this review the news has been full of corruption in Pakistan cricket and more, and the never-ending problems of corruption seem ever greater. But the book does offer some hope and gives ideas to the church as to how to respond. I suspect this book is mostly aimed at those involved in mission, development and government but it is a well-written and interesting read for any concerned person.