num_pages: 606
description: From an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes an outrageous story of greed, corruption, and conspiracy--which left the FBI and Justice Department counting on the cooperation of one man . . .It was one of the FBI's biggest a senior executive with America's most politically powerful corporation, Archer Daniels Midland, had become a confidential government witness, secretly recording a vast criminal conspiracy spanning five continents. Mark Whitacre, the promising golden boy of ADM, had put his career and family at risk to wear a wire and deceive his friends and colleagues. Using Whitacre and a small team of agents to tap into the secrets at ADM, the FBI discovered the company's scheme to steal millions of dollars from its own customers.But as the FBI and federal prosecutors closed in on ADM, using stakeouts, wiretaps, and secret recordings of illegal meetings around the world, they suddenly found that everything was not all that it appeared. At the same time Whitacre was cooperating with the Feds while playing the role of loyal company man, he had his ownagenda he kept hidden from everyone around him--his wife, his lawyer, even the FBI agents who had come to trust him with the case they had put their careers on the line for. Whitacre became sucked into his own world of James Bond antics, imperiling the criminal case and creating a web of deceit that left the FBI and prosecutors uncertain where the lies stopped and the truth began.In this gripping account unfolds one of the most captivating and bizarre tales in the history of the FBI and corporate America. Meticulously researched and richly told by New York Times senior writer Kurt Eichenwald, The Informant re-creates the drama of the story, beginning with the secret recordings, stakeouts, and interviews with suspects and witnesses to the power struggles within ADM and its board--including the high-profile chairman Dwayne Andreas, F. Ross Johnson, and Brian Mulroney--to the big-gun Washington lawyers hired by ADM and on up through the ranks of the Justice Department to FBI Director Louis Freeh and Attorney General Janet Reno.A page-turning real-life thriller that features deadpan FBI agents, crooked executives, idealistic lawyers, and shady witnesses with an addiction to intrigue, The Informant tells an important and compelling story of power and betrayal in America
language: English
title: The Informant
titlecomplete: The Informant
characters: Ginger Whitacre, Charles Koob, Sharon Walsh, Sid Hulse, Mark Tani, Anne Bingaman, Lpstein, Reinhart Richter, Thomas Dewey, Hirokazu Ikeda, Patti McLaren, John Bruch, Kazutoshi Yamada, David Page, Jerome Schneider, Chris Jones, Mike Frein, Ed Hamara, Blanche Manning, Bob Anderson, Scott Roberts, Kotaro Fujiwara, Michael D. Andreas, Jacques Chaudret, Gertraud Borasky, Kanji Mimoto, Jim Shafter, Mark E. Whitacre, Wayne Brasser, Merrick Garland, Beat Schweizer, Susan Booker, Jeffrey Steinback, Joe Montana, Bob Strauss, Brian Peterson, Derek Miller, Ron Henkoff, Scott Kilman, Dwayne Andreas, Gary Spratling, Robert K. Herndon, Richard Beattie, Robin Mann, Rolf Brüggermann, Regina Superneau, Louis Freeh, Kevin Corr, Jules Kroll, Peter Hwang, William Esposito, Rick Reising, Lennart Thorstensson, Marty Allison, Rob Grant, Dean Paisley, James Randall, Joseph Graham, Tony D'Angelo, Bob Zaideman, David Westrup, Masaru Yamamoto, Jim Griffin, Kent Brown, Mike Bassett, J. L. Brehant, Ron Ferrari, Thomas P. O’Neill, Karen Sterling, Aubrey Daniel III, Jim Mutchnik, Byron Cudmore, Mary Spearing, Scott Lassar, Thomas Daniels, J. R. Hovelsrud, Ken Temples, Carole Myer, Terry Wilson, Kyle Rountree, Fritz Dujour, Mark Cheviron, Joe Albert Weatherall, Lawrence Kill, Thomas Kubic, Jim Epstein, Craig Dahle, Vernon Ellison, Kirk Schmidt, Brian Shepard, Andrew Levetown, Nelson Campbell, Kate Killham, Ed Worthington, Reid Weingarten, Sean Berkowitz, Steven Yu, Joe Hartzler, J. M. Suh, Edward Bennett Williams
genres: Law, History, Finance, Economics, Biography, Business, Crime, Nonfiction, True Crime, Politics
ratings_count: 4300
publisher: Broadway