The Informant by Kurt EichenwaldMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I was intrigued to learn more ever since seeing the Matt Damon movie, and this book really delivers on the intriguing and outlandish details. Trying to bring down the immense lysine price-fixing conspiracy, the FBI gets mired in the bipolar-induced paranoia and schemes of ADM's Divisional President Mark Whitacre,who was embezzling $9 million even while cooperating with the FBI setting up his colleagues wearing a wire, etc. Whitacre as a complex figure that frequently likes and shows evidence of delusion. Apparently, Whitacre was scammed by a group in Nigeria in an advance fee fraud and these losses may have been the initial reason behind his embezzlement activity which grew to affect colleagues and family.
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