Review of two books. Inefficient governments, organizational transgressions, and personal greed, are all to be accounted for in the assessment of corruption. Corruption has become the new catch word comprising many social misconducts; it appears to be the common root of global injustice. This is good news if one wishes to find a clear-cut location of where the problem lies in order to develop focused strategies to uncover, expose and solve it. Corruption is evil, but it is not natural or cultural, it is circumstantial and we need to learn how to prevent it, mitigate its allure and be wise in fighting it. Two books offer a differing prescription for this global ill.