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A 3 page book report on this novel, which is fictionalized account of the Archer Daniels Midland price-fixing scandal from the 1990s. The novel is completely true to life as Eichenwald was the New York Times reporter on the case. No additional sources cited.
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executive, informed the FBI of ADMs illicit activities forms the basis for this fictionalized account of the scandal and prosecution of the company and several of ADMs top executives. As
this suggests, essentially, Eichenwald has turned a real-life tale of greed and corporate corruption into an engrossing police-investigation novel that largely focuses on the whistleblower, Whitacre, and how the government
investigation eventually caused the downfall of this major multinational corporation. It may seem strange that Eichenwald, a New York Times reporter, created this book as a work of fiction,
but this turns out to be a good choice, as it allows him to situated the reader in precisely the same position as the FBI and the investigators, who learn
the full picture of what is going on at ADM in bits and pieces. This makes for a truly fascinating, but highly unusual novel, as typically, a novel does not
have an extensive notation on its sources and this does. In fact, the "Notes and Sources" section at the back of the book that indicates how Eichenwald is one of
the most interesting parts of the book. This indicates how the author based the novel on "more than eight hundred hours of interviews, many of which were tape-recorded with more
than one hundred participants," and involved examination of thousands of documents (Eichenwald 569). However, in other ways, it is similar to other mystery-thrillers. For example, it begins slowly
and it takes awhile before the complications start to develop. Whitacre starts out as a hero, a brave soul with the integrity come forward and do the right thing. However,
it turns out that he, too, is a criminal, an embezzler and involved in a bogus banking scheme. Whitacre had a fake offshore company send ADM a fabricated invoice, which
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