num_pages: 352
description: 'The financial investigation of the decade... Money Men instantly enters the canon of great financial crime books' Bradley Hope author of The Billion Dollar Whale'A rip-roaring ride into the underworld of the global economy' Tom Burgis author of KleptopiaThis is the stranger-than-fiction story of Wirecard once a $30 billion tech darling now a smouldering wreck by the journalist who brought it crashing down - perfect for those who loved Bad Blood and Empire of Pain.When journalist Dan McCrum followed a tip to investigate the hot new tech company challenging Silicon Valley everything about Wirecard looked a little too good to be true: offices were sprouting up around the world it was reporting runaway growth and the CEO even wore a black turtleneck in tribute to Steve Jobs. In the space of a few short years the company had come from nowhere to overtake industry giants like Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank on the stock market.As McCrum dug deeper he encountered a story stranger and more dangerous than he ever imagined: a world of short sellers and whistleblowers pornographers and private militias hackers and spies. Before long he realised that he wasn't the only one in pursuit. Shadowy figures were following him through the streets of London high-flying lawyers were sending ominous letters to his boss and he was named as the prime suspect in a criminal inquiry. The race was on to prove his suspicions and clear his name.Money Men is the astonishing inside story of Wirecard's multi-billion-dollar fraud Europe's biggest new tech darling revealed as a house of cards. Uncovering fake bank accounts fake offices and possibly even a fake death McCrum offers a searing expos that will finally lay bare the truth.
language: English
title: Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth
publisher: Bantam Press