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Portobello Books has acquired the rights for a book by Kurt Eichenwald, which has already been adapted for the big screen. Publisher Philip Gwyn Jones acquired UK and Commonwealth rights excluding Australia and New Zealand from Random House.
The Informant is a true story of how a 'corporate golden boy' turned into an FBI mole. Mark Whitacre was a senior executive in a large company who became a confidential government witness. Using Whitacre's recordings the FBI uncovered the corporation's scheme to steal millions of dollars from its own customers.
The Informant will be published in paperback in October 2009 priced at £8.99 and was previously published in America by Broadway Books in 2001.
The film is directed by Steven Soderbergh and stars Matt Damon in the title role. It is due to premiere at the Toronto film festival in September and will go on general release in the UK in November.
Eichenwald was formerly an investigative reporter at the New York Times. He primarily covered Wall Street and corporate topics such as insider trading, accounting scandals, and takeovers. He has also written books titled Serpent on the Rock (Broadway) and Conspiracy of Fools (Broadway).