INFORMANT, THE 英文原版

　　From an award-winning New York Times investigative reportercomes an outrageous story of greed, corruption, andconspiracy—which left the FBI and Justice Department counting onthe cooperation of one man . . .
　　It was one of the FBI's biggest secrets: a senior executive withAmerica's most politically powerful corporation, Archer DanielsMidland, had become a confidential government witness, secretlyrecording a vast criminal conspiracy spanning five continents. MarkWhitacre, the promising golden boy of ADM, had put his career andfamily at risk to wear a wire and deceive his friends andcolleagues. Using Whitacre and a small team of agents to tap intothe secrets at ADM, the FBI discovered the company's scheme tosteal millions of dollars from its own customers.
　　But as the FBI and federal prosecutors closed in on ADM, usingstakeouts, wiretaps, and secret recordings of illegal meetingsaround the world, they suddenly found that everything was not allthat it appeared. At the same time Whitacre was cooperating withthe Feds while playing the role of loyal company man, he had hisown
agenda he kept hidden from everyone around him—his wife, hislawyer, even the FBI agents who had come to trust him with the casethey had put their careers on the line for. Whitacre became suckedinto his own world of James Bond antics, imperiling the criminalcase and creating a web of deceit that left the FBI and prosecutorsuncertain where the lies stopped and the truth began.
　　In this gripping account unfolds one of the most captivating andbizarre tales in the history of the FBI and corporate America.Meticulously researched and richly told by New York Times seniorwriter Kurt Eichenwald, The Informant re-creates the drama of thestory, beginning with the secret recordings, stakeouts, andinterviews with suspects and witnesses to the power struggleswithin ADM and its board—including the high-profile chairman DwayneAndreas, F. Ross Johnson, and Brian Mulroney—to the big-gunWashington lawyers hired by ADM and on up through the ranks of theJustice Department to FBI Director Louis Freeh and Attorney GeneralJanet Reno.
　　A page-turning real-life thriller that features deadpan FBIagents, crooked executives, idealistic lawyers, and shady witnesseswith an addiction to intrigue, The Informant tells an important andcompelling story of power and betrayal in America