Recommended Reading

Recommended Reading

Essential books, documentaries, and resources for understanding corporate fraud, financial crime, and white-collar investigations.

Books

  • Bad Blood by John Carreyrou — The definitive account of the Theranos fraud
  • Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart — Inside the 1980s insider trading scandal
  • The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind — How Enron collapsed
  • Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe — The Sackler family and the opioid crisis
  • Billion Dollar Loser by Reeves Wiedeman — The rise and fall of WeWork
  • Flash Boys by Michael Lewis — High-frequency trading and market manipulation

Documentaries

  • Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
  • The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019)
  • Dirty Money — Netflix series on corporate fraud
  • WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn (2021)

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