John Carreyrou Picador, 2019, PB, 320pp, £9.99, 978-1509868087
A chilling account of one woman’s mission to become a self-made billionaire, Bad Blood is an exceptional demonstration of courageous journalism by John Carreyrou. Elizabeth Holmes was named by Forbes magazine as the youngest self-made female billionaire in the US after her company, Theranos, was valued at $9 billion in 2014. Carreyrou paints a disturbing image of Holmes’s desire to attain financial success above all else: a Stanford drop-out, …