Celebrity philanthropy comes in many guises but no single figure better encapsulates its delusions pretensions and wrongheadedness than U2\'s iconic frontman Bono - a fact neither sunglasses nor leather pants can hide More than a mere philanthropist - indeed he lags behind many of his peers when it comes to parting with his own money - Bono is better described as an advocate one who has become an unwitting symbol of a complacent wealthy Western elite The Frontman reveals how Bono moved his investments to Amsterdam to avoid Irish taxes; his paternalistic and often bullying advocacy of neoliberal solutions in Africa; his multinational business interests; and his hobnobbing with Paul Wolfowitz and shock-doctrine economist Jeffrey Sachs Carefully dissecting the rhetoric and actions of Bono the political operator The Frontman shows him to be an ambassador for imperial exploitation a man who has turned his attention to a world of savage injustice inequality and exploitation and helped make it worse