《The Informant: A True Story》 – 库尔特·艾肯沃尔德（Kurt Eichenwald）告密者 –

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<The Informant: A True Story>—— 库尔特·艾肯沃尔德（Kurt Eichenwald）

From an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes an outrageous story of greed, corruption, and conspiracy—which left the FBI and Justice Department counting on the cooperation of one man . . .

It was one of the FBI\’s biggest secrets: a senior executive with America\’s most politically powerful corporation, Archer Daniels Midland, had become a confidential government witness, secretly recording a vast criminal conspiracy spanning five continents. Mark Whitacre, the promising golden boy of ADM, had put his career and family at risk to wear a wire and deceive his friends and colleagues. Using Whitacre and a small team of agents to tap into the secrets at ADM, the FBI discovered the company\’s scheme to steal millions of dollars from its own customers.

But as the FBI and federal prosecutors closed in on ADM, using stakeouts, wiretaps, and secret recordings of illegal meetings around the world, they suddenly found that everything was not all that it appeared. At the same time Whitacre was cooperating with the Feds while playing the role of loyal company man, he had his own agenda he kept hidden from everyone around him—his wife, his lawyer, even the FBI agents who had come to trust him with the case they had put their careers on the line for. 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 lies stopped and the truth began.

In this gripping account unfolds one of the most captivating and bizarre tales in the history of the FBI and corporate America. Meticulously researched and richly told by New York Times senior writer Kurt Eichenwald, The Informant re-creates the drama of the story, beginning with the secret recordings, stakeouts, and interviews with suspects and witnesses to the power struggles within ADM and its board—including the high-profile chairman Dwayne Andreas, F. Ross Johnson, and Brian Mulroney—to the big-gun Washington lawyers hired by ADM and on up through the ranks of the Justice Department to FBI Director Louis Freeh and Attorney General Janet Reno.

A page-turning real-life thriller that features deadpan FBI agents, crooked executives, idealistic lawyers, and shady witnesses with an addiction to intrigue, The Informant tells an important and compelling story of power and betrayal in America.

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读完《告密者》了，感觉很有成就感。不管之前读韦伯，读奥尔森还是读罗斯巴德，这些都是学术界的自上而下的思考，无论如何都比不上现实世界精彩。如果说这是一本小说的话，我会认为比阿加莎克里斯蒂的还要精彩，但是这竟然是现实。难以置信。如果说自由市场中有些东西是一个烂苹果，那么之前推荐的时候，我只看过这小说的一半，仅就价格垄断来说，这充其量只是表皮上的斑点，当我看完整个小说以后，我才觉得这苹果已经烂到心里面了。不管罗斯巴德说这只苹果多么美丽。

如果想看到政府的无力，如果想看到市场的黑暗，比如那些在教科书上我们不以为意的洗钱、行贿受贿、挪动公共财产、地下交易、欺骗股东、伪造发票和皮包公司，和最普通的价格垄断行为到底有多么猖獗，那么你绝对不能错过它。那些国际税收中的名字比如开曼群岛、比如瑞士银行现在都开始活生生的跳动起来，马克拥有如此多的世界各地的转移财产户头是在让我们感到震惊。而且这并非普通现象。RB的业务如此广博，也难怪成为顶级银行了。

要解决政府的问题，就是激励的问题，人的问题。这可复杂了，在中国就是老百姓的问责，打醒这群人，让权利意识回到人们中间。要解决市场的问题，嗯，还得靠政府，所以不能没有政府，政府不能没有人民。所以结论是两句话，从我做起，从现在开始——你们明白吗？

This book is CRAAAAZZZZZYYYYY good! The author\’s insight and coverage of the entrails of this investigation and the entire story is incredibly impressive.