"This riveting look at a world of intrigue reads like a spy novel…. Highly recommended…"
—Library Journal

“[A] gripping tell-all book…Perkins reveals how the U.S. machine works behind closed doors and how America has exploited others for its own needs.”
— Rocky Mountain News

“... imagine the conceptual love child of James Bond and Milton Friedman.”
Boston Herald

“… a must read, even for the well informed who already have an understanding of the dark side of Capitalism. Perkins gives new meaning to the statement, ‘I’m from the government, and I am here to help you.’ Now the entire world is put on notice to be on guard when anyone says, ‘I’m from the World Bank, or the IMF, or the consulting firm, or the engineering company, and I am here to help you.’”
--Press Action

“…an adventure thriller worthy of Graham Green or John Le Carre that connects the dots between corporate globalization, American Empire, and the dynasty of the House of Bush.”
--Dragonfly Review

“Confessions of an Economic Hit Man may be one of the most important non-fiction works of the year, if not the decade. It’s a gripping page-turner that reads like a well-crafted novel, which is just as well, because this is the book you have to read if you want to understand how the world economy is driven, and by whom.”
--New York Spirit

“The man who hired Perkins at Charles T. Main--former [Tucson Electric Power Co.] executive [Einar] Greve--said his story is accurate. ‘I would say that, allowing for some author discretion, basically his story is true,’ Greve said during a phone interview…. ‘What John's book says is, there was a conspiracy to put all these countries on the hook, and that happened. Whether or not it was some sinister plot or not is up to interpretation, but many of these countries are still over the barrel and have never been able to repay the loans.’”
--Tucson Citizen (read the entire article)