Peter Elkind – författare

What went wrong with American business at the end of the 20th century?Until the spring of 2001, Enron epitomized the triumph of the New Economy. Feared by rivals, worshipped by investors, Enron seemingly could do no wrong. Its profits rose every year; its stock price surged ever upward; its leaders were hailed as visionaries. Then a young Fortune writer, Bethany McLean, wrote an article posing a simple question - how, exactly, does Enron make its money?Within a year Enron was facing humiliation and bankruptcy, the largest in US history, which caused Americans to lose faith in a system that rewarded top insiders with millions of dollars, while small investors lost everything. It was revealed that Enron was a company whose business was an illusion, an illusion that Wall Street was willing to accept even though they knew what the real truth was. This book - fully updated for the paperback - tells the extraordinary story of Enron's fall.

What went wrong with American business at the end of the 20th century?Until the spring of 2001, Enron epitomized the triumph of the New Economy. Feared by rivals, worshipped by investors, Enron seemingly could do no wrong. Its profits rose every year; its stock price surged ever upward; its leaders were hailed as visionaries.Then a young Fortune writer, Bethany McLean, wrote an article posing a simple question - how, exactly, does Enron make its money?Within a year Enron was facing humiliation and bankruptcy, the largest in US history, which caused Americans to lose faith in a system that rewarded top insiders with millions of dollars, while small investors lost everything. It was revealed that Enron was a company whose business was an illusion, an illusion that Wall Street was willing to accept even though they knew what the real truth was. This book tells the extraordinary story of Enron's fall.'The best book about the Enron debacle to date' BusinessWeek'The authors write with power and finesse. Their prose is effortless, like a sprinter floating down the track' USA Today'Well-reported and well-written' Warren Buffett

Peter Elkind presents an in-depth look at the ambitious career and sudden disgrace of former New York governor Eliot Spitzer. The result is a gripping narrative of one man''s noble intentions and fatal flaws and the powerful forces that destroyed him.

Updated with dramatic developments and multiple new murder charges—the classic account of arguably the most shocking and insidious case in the history of medicine: the crimes of one nurse that were hidden by a hospital for years.It's 1980, and Genene Jones is working the 3 to 11 PM shift in the pediatric ICU in San Antonio's county hospital. As weeks go by, infants under her care begin experiencing unexpected complications—and death—in alarming numbers, prompting rumors that there is a murderer among the staff. Her eight-hour shift came to be called the death shift. This strange epidemic continued unabated for more than a year, before Jones was quietly sent off—with a good recommendation—to a rural pediatric clinic. There, eight children under her care mysteriously stopped breathing—and a 15-month-old baby girl died.In May 1983, Jones was finally arrested, leading to a pair of trials that revealed not only her deeply disturbed mind and a willingness to kill, but a desire to play God with the lives of the children under her care. More shocking still, it was discovered that the hospital had shredded records and remained silent about Jones's horrific deeds, obscuring the full extent of her spree and prompting grieving parents to ask: Why?Elkind chronicles Jones's rampage, the desperate investigations of what happened—including those that led to five new murder charges decades later—and the chilling aftermath of one of the most horrific string of crimes in America, while also turning his piercing gaze onto those responsible for its cover-up. The Death Shift is a tale with special relevance years after her conviction, as prosecutors, distraught parents, and victims' advocates struggled and ultimately triumphed to keep Jones behind bars, despite her scheduled mandatory release from a Texas prison in early 2018.