THE INFORMANT

When the U.S. government accused powerful agri-business giant Archer Daniels Midland of price-fixing, they thought they had the ultimate star witness--a vice president turned informant who had taped nefarious meetings with competitors. They ended up with a horrible liability instead; their informant turned out to be a psychotic liar who stole millions from his employer. Michael McConnohie dramatizes this true-crime story masterfully. White-collar crime might not sound too interesting, but Eichenwald's punchy prose and McConnohie's masterful reading keeps a listener's attention to the end, when author confronts in-formant in a dynamic denouement. T.F. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine [Published: FEB/MAR 01]