The Informant: A True Story.

EICHENWALD, Kurt.

Item Number: 110231

New York: Broadway Books, 2000.

First edition of this gripping account of the mid-1990s lysine price-fixing conspiracy which inspired the 2009 film, The Informant! starring Matt Damon. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Jill Ogata, With best wishes, Kurt Eichenwald” and by Academy Award-winning actor Matt Damon. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

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 award-winning New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald, The Informant recreates the drama of the mid-1990s lysine price-fixing conspiracy, beginning with the secret recordings, stakeouts, and interviews with suspects and witnesses to the power struggles within Archer Daniels Midland Company and its board. The book was adapted into the 2009 American biographical-comedy-crime film The Informant! directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Matt Damon.