The Informant

a true story
movie tie-in edition

Kurt Eichenwald

'Ranks with A Civil Action as one of the best nonfiction books of the last decade.'

(New York Times Book Review)

'The Informant is superb reporting in the service of a great story, one with the drama and suspense of a Le Carre novel.'

James B. Stewart, Den of Thieves and Blind Eye

'The most riveting tale of recent years … a fast-paced race-car of a book.'

(Salon.com)

In The Informant, award-winning investigative reporter and New York Times bestselling author Kurt Eichenwald tells the outrageously true story of greed, corruption, and conspiracy that left the FBI and Justice Department counting on the cooperation of one man. Now a major motion picture, the film adaptation of The Informant stars Matt Damon as Mark Whitacre, the executive who wore a wire for the FBI as they tried to bring down corporate giant Archer Daniels Midland—but whose dark secrets and hidden agenda threatened to unravel one of the largest price-fixing cases in history.

'Reads like an Ed McBain crime novel. I knew how the story ended, but I still couldn't put the book down.'

(The New York Times)

'Gripping … A remarkable work and a compelling read … The intensity of reportage seems at times almost superhuman.'

(Newsday)

'One of the most compelling business narratives since Barbarians at the Gate'

(Business Week)

'I guarantee it'll keep you reading late into the night.'

Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action

'The Informant reads like a convoluted Grisham thriller but more preposterous, which makes it It is possible that this decades-old all the more compelling.'

(Courier Mail)

Kurt Eichenwald

Kurt Eichenwald is the New York Times bestselling author of three nonfiction books. A former senior writer for the Times, he is a two-time winner of the George Polk Award for excellence in journalism, as well as a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a winner of the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism. He is currently at work on his fourth book, a nonfiction narrative about national security and intelligence in the years after 9/11. He lives in Dallas with his wife and three children.

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Edition: movie tie-in edition
Format: Pb
Extent: 656pp
Size: 210mm x 135mm
ISBN (13): 9781921640193
RRP: $29.95
Pub date: November 2009

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