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Now a major motion picture from Warner Bros., starring Academy Award-winner Matt Damon and directed by Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh, set for nationwide theatrical release on September 18, 2009
THE INFORMANT
A
T
RUE
S
TORY
KURT EICHENWALD
*Ranked as one of the best books of the year by the
New York Times
, the
Washington Post
,
BusinessWeek
and the Book-of-the-Month Club*
“Ranks with
A Civil Action
as one of the best nonfiction books of the last decade.”—
New York Times Book Review
“The thriller of the year—and it’s all true.”—
Dallas Morning News
“Gripping. . .
T
HE
I
NFORMANT
is a remarkable work and a compelling read. . . You will race through it in anger andastonishment. . . It’s hard to imagine that this story could have had a more thorough chronicler than Eichenwald. . .The intensity of the reportage seems at times almost superhuman.”—
Newsday
“One of the most compelling business narratives since Barbarians at the Gate.”—
BusinessWeek
“
T
HE
I
NFORMANT
is a remarkable, fascinating, and fast-paced book…a tangled tale worthy of John Le Carré…one of the most intriguing—and nearly unbelievable—nonfiction books in recent memory.”
—
Oregonian
“The book reads like John Grisham on acid and once begun, you can’t put it down.”
—Liz Smith“
A real page-turner.”
—Ira Glass, host,
This American Life
“Gripping…brilliantly reported…a twisted tale full of object lessons for anyone who seeks “the Truth.”
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
“A jaw-dropping reconstruction of crime and white-collar corruption…[Eichenwald] is one of the finest journalists around.”
—
Boston Globe
In his critically acclaimed and spell-binding real-life thriller
THE INFORMANT: A TRUE STORY,
award-winning investigative reporter and bestselling author Kurt Eichenwald blew the lid off one of the mostbizarre cases in the history of the FBI and corporate America — the incredible story of the highest-rankingcorporate whistleblower in American history.On August 17, 2009, Broadway Books is publishing a movie tie-in edition of Eichenwald’s now-classicbook to coincide with the release by Warner Bros. of a major motion picture based on Eichenwald’s book,starring Academy Award winner Matt Damon (
Good Will Hunting
, the “Bourne” movies) as Marc Whitacre, anddirected by Oscar
winner Steven Soderbergh (
Traffic
,
Ocean’s Thirteen
). The movie, titled
THE INFORMANT
,will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on September 11 and is scheduled for nationwide release on Friday,September 18.In his book, Eichenwald tells the outrageously true story of greed, corruption, and conspiracy that left theFBI and Justice Department counting on the cooperation of one man. It was one of the FBI’s biggest secrets: asenior executive with Archer Daniels Midland—America’s most politically powerful corporation—had become aconfidential government witness, secretly recording a vast conspiracy spanning five continents. Marc Whitacre,the promising golden boy of ADM, had put his career and family at risk to wear a wire and deceive his friendsand colleagues. Using Whitacre and a small team of agents to tap into the secrets at ADM, the FBI discovered thecompany’s scheme to steal millions of dollars from its own customers.It looked like an easy case, destined for the annals of FBI crime-busting legends. But as the FBI andfederal prosecutors closed in on ADM, using stakeouts, wiretaps, and secret recordings of illegal meetings aroundthe world, they suddenly found that everything was not all that it appeared. While Whitacre was cooperating withthe feds, playing the role of loyal company man, he had his own agenda that he kept hidden from everyonearound him—his wife, his lawyer, even the FBI agents who had come to trust him with the case on which theyhad staked their careers.
THE INFORMANT
is also about the “story behind the story” of the FBI’s case against ADM.Eichenwald managed what so many others failed to do. He developed a relationship with Whitacre that allowedhim, for the first time, to tell the whole truth. Whitacre became sucked into his own world of James Bond antics,imperiling the criminal case and creating a web of deceit that left the FBI and prosecutors uncertain where the liesstopped and the truth began. In
THE INFORMANT
, Eichenwald separates insidiously convincing fiction fromeven more scintillating fact, and reveals the gritty details of Whitacre’s work for the feds, and the truth about hismotivations that even the FBI didn’t know.
THE INFORMANT
re-creates all the drama of the FBI’s case against ADM. Eichenwald takes us insidea world of secret recordings, stakeouts, and interviews with suspects and witnesses to the power struggles withinADM and its board—including the high-profile chairman Dwayne Andreas, F. Ross Johnson, and BrianMulroney. Watch as the big-gun Washington lawyers hired by ADM do battle with the Justice Department, FBIDirector Louis Freeh, and Attorney General Janet Reno.
THE INFORMANT
is a page-turning real-life thriller that features deadpan FBI agents, crookedexecutives, idealistic lawyers, and shady witnesses with an addiction to intrigue. And, in addition to reminding usof the malleable nature of truth, Eichenwald demonstrates that while the truth can set you free, “a corollary alsoholds true: Lying can leave you imprisoned—in every possible meaning of that word.”
# # #About the Author:
KURT EICHENWALD
is the
New York Times
bestselling author of three non-fiction books. A senior writer andinvestigative reporter with the
New York Times
for more than two decades, Eichenwald has written about a rangeof topics, including corporate ethics and fraud, economics and corporate finance, healthcare, and Osama binLaden’s financial network.All of his books have been bestsellers. His first,
Serpent on the Rock
, about the Prudential Securities scandals,was published by Harper Collins. His second book,
The Informant: A True Story
, was published in 2000 byBroadway Books, an imprint of the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, a division of Random House.
The Informant was
a finalist for a J. Anthony Lukas Prize and the Investigative Reporters and Editors Book Award,and was deemed by the New York Times Book Review as “one of the best non-fiction books of the last decade.”The movie version of
The Informant
, starring Matt Damon and directed by Stephen Soderbergh, will be releasedin September, 2009.His third book,
Conspiracy of Fools,
covered the Enron debacle and was a finalist for the Los Angeles TimesBook Award. A film version of
Conspiracy
is in pre-production, with Leonardo DiCaprio slated for the lead role.The production company is DiCaprio’s Appian Way.
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