The definitive, shocking account from the FIFA scandal—the largest corruption case of recent years—involving dozens of countries and implicating nearly every aspect of the world’s most popular sport, soccer, including the World Cup is “an engrossing and jaw-dropping tale of international intrigue…A riveting book” (THE BRAND NEW York Times).

The FIFA case began small, boosted by an IRS agent’s review of an American soccer official’s taxation statements. But that humble analysis eventually resulted in a huge about Red Cards: The way the U.S. Blew the Whistle for the World’s Biggest Sports activities Scandal worldwide corruption scandal that crossed continents and reached the best degrees of the soccer’s globe regulating body in Switzerland.

“The meeting of American investigative reporting and real-life cop show” (The Financial Times), Ken Bensinger’s Red Credit card explores the case, as well as the personalities behind it, in vivid details. There’s Chuck Blazer, a high-living soccer father who ascended to the best ranks of the activity while creaming millions from its coffers; Jack Warner, a Trinidadian soccer established whose lust for power was matched only by his boundless greed; and the sport’s most effective man, FIFA chief executive Sepp Blatter, who held on to his position at any cost even as soccer rotted from the inside out.

Amazingly, this corruption existed for many years before American law enforcement officials begun to secretly dig, finally revealing that nearly every facet of the planet’s favorite sport was corrupted by bribes, kickbacks, scams, and money laundering. Not even the World Glass, the most-watched sporting event in history, was safe through the thick internet of problem, as effective FIFA officials extracted their bribes at every convert. “A gripping white-collar crime thriller that, in its range and human episode, ranks with among the better investigative business books of the past thirty years” (The Wall structure Street Journal), Red Card will go beyond the headlines to bring the real tale to light.