McKinsey & Company is the most prestigious consulting company in the world, earning billions of dollars in fees from major corporations and governments that turn to it to maximize their profits and enhance efficiency. In When McKinsey Comes to Town, two prizewinning investigative journalists have written a portrait of the company sharply at odds with its public image. Often McKinsey's advice boils down to major cost-cutting, including layoffs and maintenance reductions, to drive up short-term profits, thereby boosting a company's stock price and the wealth of the executives who hire the firm, at the expense of workers and safety measures. And McKinsey collects millions of dollars advising the very government agencies that simultaneously regulate its corporate clients. Shielded by NDAs, McKinsey has escaped public scrutiny despite its role in advising tobacco and vaping companies, purveyors of opioids, repressive governments, and oil companies. It helped insurance companies boost their profits by making it incredibly difficult for accident victims to get payments and worked its U.S. government contacts to let Wall Street firms evade oversight. And much more, When McKinsey Comes to Town is a landmark work of investigative reporting that amounts to a devastating portrait of a firm whose work has often, made the world more unequal, more corrupt, and more dangerous.