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Bad Blood: Secrets And Lies In A Silicon Valley Startup
Book #4 in the
Virgil Flowers Series
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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOKS OF THE YEAR BY: NPR, The New York Times Book Review, Time, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post - The McKinsey Business Book of the Year
The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes--now the subject of the HBO documentary The Inventor--by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end. The story is even crazier than I expected, and I found myself unable to put it down once I started. This book has everything: elaborate scams, corporate intrigue, magazine cover stories, ruined family relationships, and the demise of a company once valued at nearly $10 billion. --Bill Gates In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup unicorn promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood testing significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes's worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn't work. A riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.
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Bad Blood: Secrets And Lies In A Silicon Valley Startup is book #4 in the Virgil Flowers Book Series and comes after Rough Country and comes before Shock Wave
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in 2011 Bad Blood: Secrets And Lies In A Silicon Valley Startup won the Thriller Awards in category .
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Virgil is the best
Derived From Web , Feb 8, 2022
I am a huge fan of John Sandford. I just bought and read the complete Prey series and the complete Flowers series in order, but I will have to wait for the next book in both series. Sandford is a novelist with the rare ability to carry over characters and plot elements with complete believabiity while allowing both to develop in interesting, unexpected, but natural ways - the only other serial novelist who does this nearly as well is Anthony Trollope. I re- read these books with pleasure because of the fast- paced narrative and unexpected plot developments that make them so enjoyable to read again. The atmosphere, character growth, and situation development can be paid attention to the second or third. Sandford writes like a real novelist, not someone trying to impress academia with his literary exclusivity.
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That effin' Flowers
Derived From Web , Feb 8, 2022
Don't believe all the things you read. John Sandford is what this is. His writing is good and his character development is spot on. I challenge anyone to provide any evidence that is not false. If you are a fan of Sandford, you will be reading this one. I will take a moment to blast the publishers, and to an extent Sandford himself, for charging more for a ebook than a paperback. This has become popular with popular authors. Lescroart's writing will feel the effects. Our entertainment dollar only stretches so far and reading is for pleasure. When the price of a book goes up, my tolerance for shoddy writing drops. I know I spend more time reading reviews now that I am a reader. I am not as generous. I dropped Lescroart, but I'm still with Sandford. A poor book with a higher price does it for me.
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Murder mystery w NSFW language & situations. See NC-17 warnings below.
Derived From Web , Dec 21, 2021
I have enjoyed every book of the Virgil Flowers series, but this one has a high ick factor, which wasn't avoidable due to the storyline structure. The original congregants of the fundamentalist church that sponsored the murders came to the US in the 1870s. Churchmen in a small community were able to rape women and children for over a hundred years. Abuse of women is Trigger warnings. Heterosexual and homosexual. There was physical and sexual abuse. Sexual enslavement.
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I wanted a shower and to take my kindle with me
Derived From Web , Apr 27, 2021
The plot of this is about debased people and horrible things they do. There were pages of sickness. Unless you have a strong stomach, I can't recommend this book. It is written well and that makes it sick. In Alaska, I worked for an adult officer. The book had worse people in it than I met in his office.
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Not quite up the standard of the earlier Flowers books
Derived From Web , Nov 11, 2020
This one of the books I' ve read so far has a lot of the enjoyable characteristics of the earlier books. It is disappointing at the end by moving into a rapid- fire rush to and past the climax. The ending of this book was more annoying and over- the- top than the others. I enjoy reading murder mysteries. I don't know how often I can get into the above average cop role. Maybe I had filled my quota by the time I read this book?
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Sandford is addicting
Derived From Web , Oct 21, 2019
We both burned through Davenport. Sandford isn't going to win the Pulitzer for these, but they are the most entertaining and well written novels ever. More consistent than any of the other series. It's always good. Always moving fast. It was always satisfying.
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Disturbing
Derived From Web , Sep 1, 2019
I' ve read the complete Prey series and enjoyed it. I was having difficulty with this one. The idea of parents having sex with their children was not right. The scene where a twelve year old girl winks at a man went too far. I wonder what goes on in his mind that he can come up with a story line.
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Poor Choice of Subject Matter
Derived From Web , Mar 5, 2019
There is too much detail about child sexual abuse. It was not believable that something that perverted and widespread would stay secret that long.
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