The Informant: A True Story
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780767903264 (0767903269)
Publish date: September 5th 2000
Publisher: Broadway
Pages no: 606
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Book Club,
Mystery,
Business,
Economics,
Politics,
Thriller,
Crime,
True Crime
The Informant by Kurt Eichenwald is one of those stories that's so strange, it's almost hard to believe. The movie, while it was pretty good, left out a whole lot of strange. The book digs deeper into the strange shenangians of Mark Whitacre. True, he was helping out the government at the time... bu...
I would probably give this one 3.5 stars if I could. I liked this a lot. The story was very engaging, especially since you know it is a true story. And I spent the entire novel wondering whether or not Whitacre was a good guy or not cause I seriously was just waiting for him to flip out or something...
This was a very "dry" read for me. I actually had to force myself to finish this book. It was a pretty amazing story, just too many details.
This non-fiction story is more interesting than any fictional crime detective story. I feel compelled to be a bit more enthusiastic than usual about this book to overcome the reaction of potential readers who are not interested in a story about price fixing at Archer Daniels Midland (ADM). That ma...
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