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In this book, Mr. Perkins exposes his personal history: the actions of an immoral corporatocracy and his own participation in this corrupt system.

Confessions is different from other books (and films and other media) that accuse large governments and large corporations of holding the world hostage because I don't get the feeling that the author is trying to sell or promote his point of view. Sure, he'd like people to help change the system, but in fact he just needs to tell his story.

I did not fully understand how the system manages to tolerate things like Economic Hit Men while always looking legitimate to observers (even to many inside observers) but the book tells many revealing things, and they are probably all true.

It was also disspiriting to read, especially the latter half. By that time, Mr. Perkins has got out of the EHM business but it is clear that the business continues, even evolves, without him. It reinforces the book's main point: the system perpetuates and sustains itself, it works without benefit of a conspiracy (which could be exposed and removed) to guide it toward evil. Furthermore, most of us are responsible for buying into this undesirable system, if only by our inactions.