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Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times' is a biography of Mahathir Mohamad written by the Australian journalist Barry Wain (1944–2013).

When the first batch of the book arrived at Port Klang in December 2009, it was detained by the Home Ministry of Malaysia. The ministry finally approved the book for sale in April 2010.

The Malaysian Maverick became one of the best-selling books in Malaysia. Wain claims that 12,500 copies of the book have been sold in Asia and Australia.

Time magazine quoted an economist at Morgan Stanley in Singapore as saying that the country might have lost as much as US$100 billion since the early 1980s to corruption. Under the former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir's 22 years term, there were monetary losses amounting to over hundred of billions of ringgit and this excluded those unaccounted for and irretrievable.

The opposition politician Syed Husin Ali said, "Petronas has neither been fully transparent nor accountable with how it spends its money, especially in aiding and abetting Tun Mahathir to indulge in unproductive construction of mega projects, to bail out ailing crony companies and corporate figures, and to involve itself in excessive and wasteful spending on celebrations and conferences."