Craig Unger reports on kompromat—the Russian word for compromising information—operations that uncovered the dirty little secrets of the richest and most powerful men on earth. Set in a world of Upper East Side mansions and private Caribbean islands, of gigantic yachts and private jets, American Kompromat shows that something much more sinister and important was taking place than the public could ever imagine—namely, that from Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, kompromat operations documented the darkest secrets of the most powerful people in the world and transformed them into potent weapons. Unger explores the nature of the compromising material they obtained, how it was obtained, who was behind it, who had access, whether it was used for blackmail or extortion, and what roles it played in the Trump-Russia scandal.