From an award-winning New York Times
reporter comes the full, mind-boggling true story of the lies,
crimes, and ineptitude behind the Enron scandal that imperiled a
presidency, destroyed a marketplace, and changed Washington and
Wall Street forever.
It was the corporate collapse
that appeared to come out of nowhere. In late 2001, the Enron
Corporation--a darling of the financial world, a company whose
executives were friends of presidents and the powerful--imploded
virtually overnight, leaving vast wreckage in its wake and sparking
a criminal investigation that would last for years.
Kurt Eichenwald transforms the
unbelievable story of the Enron scandal into a rip-roaring
narrative of epic proportions, taking readers behind every closed
door--from the Oval Office to the executive suites, from the
highest reaches of the Justice Department to the homes and bedrooms
of the top officers. It is a tale of global reach--from Houston to
Washington, from Bombay to London, from Munich to Sao Paolo--laying
out the unbelievable scenes that twisted together to create this
shocking true story.
Eichenwald reveals
never-disclosed details of a story that features a cast including
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Paul O'Neill, Harvey Pitt, Colin
Powell, Gray Davis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Alan Greenspan, Ken Lay,
Andy Fastow, Jeff Skilling, Bill Clinton, Rupert Murdoch and Sumner
Redstone. With its you-are-there glimpse into the secretive worlds
of corporate power, Conspiracy of Fools is an all-true
financial and political thriller of cinematic
proportions.
Review
Praise for Kurt Eichenwald's bestseller, The
Informant
"Ranks with A Civil Action
as one of the best nonfiction books of the last decade."
--New York Times Book
Review
"The thriller of the year--and
it's all true!"
--Dallas Morning
News
"One of the most intriguing--and
nearly unbelievable--nonfiction books in recent memory . . . a
tangled tale worthy of John Le Carré."
--Portland
Oregonian
"A compelling narrative . . . a
business book for Grisham readers."
--Chicago Tribune
"Reads like a well-written
whodunit."
--Denver Post
"A spellbinding account, as much
of a page-turner as a Grisham novel."
--Washington
Monthly
"I guarantee it'll keep you reading
late into the night."
--Jonathan Harr, author of A
Civil Action
From the Back Cover
From an award-winning "New York Times reporter
comes the full, mind-boggling story of the lies, crimes, and
ineptitude behind the spectacular scandal that imperiled a
presidency, destroyed a marketplace, and changed Washington and
Wall Street forever . . .
It was the corporate collapse that appeared to come out of nowhere.
In late 2001, the Enron Corporation--a darling of the financial
world, a company whose executives were friends of presidents and
the powerful--imploded virtually overnight, leaving vast wreckage
in its wake and sparking a criminal investigation that would last
for years. But for all that has been written about the Enron
debacle, no one has yet to re-create the full drama of what has
already become a near-mythic American tale.
Until now. With "Conspiracy of Fools, Kurt Eichenwald transforms
the unbelievable story of the Enron scandal into a rip-roaring
narrative of epic proportions, one that is sure to delight readers
of thrillers and business books alike, achieving for this new
decade what books like "Barbarians at the Gate and "A Civil Action
accomplished in the 1990's.
Written in the roller-coaster style of a novel, the compelling
narrative takes readers behind every closed door--from the Oval
Office to the executive suites, from the highest reaches of the
Justice Department to the homes and bedrooms of the top officers.
It is a tale of global reach--from Houston to Washington, from
Bombay to London, from Munich to Sao Paolo--laying out the
unbelievable scenes that twisted together to create this shocking
true story.
Eichenwald reveals never-disclosed details of a story that features
a cast including George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Paul O'Neill,
HarveyPitt, Colin Powell, Gray Davis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Alan
Greenspan, Ken Lay, Andy Fastow, Jeff Skilling, Bill Clinton,
Rupert Murdoch and Sumner Redstone. With its you-are-there glimpse
into the secretive worlds of corporate power, "Conspiracy of Fools
is an all-true financial and political thriller of cinematic
proportions.
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