RaveFinancial TimesDespite its protagonist’s obvious flaws, the book eschews the simplistic (and sexist) conclusion that the Theranos founder is a femme fatale who bewitched her associates — almost all of them men ... The book is also a blistering critique of Silicon Valley, a kind of nonfiction corollary to Dave Eggers’s The Circle ... In chronicling Ms Holmes’s attempts to export Silicon Valley’s rotten culture into the world of life sciences, Carreyrou reminds us that her actions put real lives at risk ... Tales of corporate malfeasance are always better when the writer is in the room, and the story is at its most compelling near the end, after Carreyrou enters the action. His unmasking of Theranos is a tale of David and Goliath.
