London is a plutocrat's paradise. Far from trickling down, their wealth is burning up the environment and swallowing up the city. But what do we really know about London's super rich? To find out more about this secretive, security-heavy elite, sociologist Caroline Knowles walks the streets of London, revealing how the wealthy shape the capital in their image, creating a new world of gated communities and luxury developments. By turns jaw-dropping, enraging and enlightening, this explodes the fiction that wealth is a condition to aspire to, revealing the isolation and paranoia which accompany it. It is a powerful reminder that it is not just the super-rich who get to make the city: we make it too, and could demand something different. Because serious money is good for no one - not even the rich.