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 secrets: 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...

A real-life thriller the story of kickbacks and payoffs, of shady deals struck in secret with known felons; a story in which half a million people lose enormous sums some their life s savings in the largest securities fraud of the 1980s, with names like Onassis and Bush numbered among the victims."