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基本信息·出版社：Broadway
·页码：656 页
·出版日期：2009年08月
·ISBN：0767931254
·International Standard Book Number：0767931254
·条形码：9780767931250
·EAN：9780767931250
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·丛书名：Random House Movie Tie-In Books
·外文书名：告密者
内容简介 [National Bestseller]
Soon to be a major motion picture from Warner Bros., starring Matt Damon.
In
The Informant, award-winning investigative reporter and
New York Times bestselling author Kurt Eichenwald tells the outrageously true story of greed, corruption, and conspiracy that left the FBI and Justice Department counting on the cooperation of one man. Now headed for the silver screen, the film adaptation of
The Informant is directed by Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh, with Matt Damon set to portray Mark Whitacre, the executive who wore a wire for the FBI as they tried to bring down corporate giant Archer Daniels Midland—but whose dark secrets and hidden agenda threatened to unravel one of the largest price-fixing cases in history.
“Ranks with
A Civil Action as one of the best nonfiction books of the last decade.”
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The New York Times Book Review “The most riveting tale of recent years... a fast-paced race-car of a book.” —Salon.com
“Reads like an Ed McBain crime novel. I knew how the story ended, but I still couldn’t put the book down.”
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New York Times “Gripping…A remarkable work and a compelling read...The intensity of reportage seems at times almost superhuman.” —
Newsday 作者简介 KURT EICHENWALD, the author of the
New York Times bestselling
Conspiracy of Fools, wrote for the
New York Times for more than 20 years. A two-time winner of the George Polk Award for excellence in journalism, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 and 2002. He lives in Dallas with his wife and three children.
文摘 Chapter 1
The large gray van, its windows tinted to block the glances of the curious, pulled away from the Decatur Airport, heading toward Route 105. Inside, four foreign visitors watched as images of the modest town came into view. Working-class houses. An Assembly of God church. A man-made lake. The vast fields of corn that could be seen from the air were no longer visible, replaced instead by an entanglement of industrial plants and office buildings.
These were the sights of a thousand other blue-collar neighborhoods in a thousand other Midwestern towns. Still, on this day, September 10, 1992, it was hard not to feel a slight sense of awe. For years, world leaders had seen these images, perhaps from this very van, in a virtual pilgrimage of power. In the last few months alone, this road had been traveled by Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader, and by Dan Quayle, the American vice president. Those men, like leaders before them, had been drawn to this out-of-the-way place in the center of America largely by one company and often by one man: Archer Daniels Midland and its influential chairman, Dwayne Andreas.
Few Americans were familiar with who Andreas was or what he did. But among the world’s moneyed and powerful, he and his grain processing company were known well. In Washington, anyone who mattered was acquainted with Andreas—or more likely, with his money. For decades, he had been one of the country’s foremost political contributors, heaping cash almost indiscriminately on Democrats and Republicans—this year alone, Andreas money would be used by both George Bush and Bill Clinton in their battle for the presidency. The largesse helped transform Andreas into one of Washington’s most important men, even as he remained comfortably ensconced in its shadows. But it also thrust him into controversy. It was the $25,000 from Andreas that operatives of President Nixon laundered into the bank account of a Watergat
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