A Nobel Peace Prize recipient and declared a saint by the Catholic Church in 2016, Mother Teresa of Calcutta was celebrated by heads of state and adored by millions for her work on behalf of the poor. But who was she, really? With characteristic élan and rhetorical dexterity, the author of God Is Not Great takes aim at the fawning cult of Teresa, recasting the Albanian missionary as a spurious, despotic, and megalomaniacal operative of the wealthy. In this, his most controversial book by far, Christopher Hitchens suggests that Teresa opposed measures to end poverty, and fraternized, for financial gain, with tyrants and white-collar criminals throughout the world.