This book offers unique insights into institutional and social processes that lead to silence in the face of corruption. Authored by the whistleblower at the centre of the Airbus–GPT corruption scandal, it uses insider research to explain why individuals do not speak up when they might be expected to do so. The book draws heavily on interviews with military and civil service elites, providing highly original academic material and making an important contribution to the study of organisations.

Ian Foxley is Founder of Parrhesia, a research organisation focused on providing policymakers with evidence for the reform of legislation on whistleblower protection. He is a veteran with 24 years’ service in the British Army, in which he commanded a divisional communications regiment in Bosnia-Herzegovina. He subsequently became Programme Director for a £2 billion defence procurement project in which he discovered corrupt payments to secret subcontractors.