Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

“Bad Blood is the book you hand to anyone who tells you ‘Surely someone would have spotted it?’ Elizabeth Holmes convinced some of the most powerful people in America that she had invented a machine that could run hundreds of medical tests from a single drop of blood. She hadn’t. The machine didn’t work. And by the time the truth emerged, she had raised nearly a billion dollars. The people Holmes conned were clever financiers with brilliant careers behind them, who nine times out of ten would have spotted a con man a hundred yards away. They were titans of the American establishment. They still did not see it. The figures involved, hundreds of millions raised on a machine that did not work, are absolutely staggering. Theranos’s board, at the peak of the deception, included Henry Kissinger and George Shultz.” Read more...

The Best Heist and Con Artist Books

Jeffrey Archer, Novelist