{"product_id":"curious-case-of-mike-lynch","title":"Curious Case of Mike Lynch","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Excellent, meticulously researched biography' – \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003cbr\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003eKatie Prescott's account could hardly be bettered' – \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003cbr\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003eMy book of the year' – Martin Vander Weyer, \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A highly readable book' – \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNamed one of the\u003ci\u003e Times\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Sunday Times '\u003c\/i\u003eBest Books of 2025'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA maverick outsider. An improbable life. An even more improbable death.\u003cbr\u003eDiscover the real story of Mike Lynch, Britain’s enigmatic billionaire.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the morning of 19\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e August 2024, the \u003ci\u003eBayesian \u003c\/i\u003eyacht tragically sank off the coast of Sicily, taking with it the lives of Mike Lynch, his daughter and five others. Hours earlier, Lynch’s associate and co-defendant in one of the biggest fraud cases in Silicon Valley history, Stephen Chamberlain, was hit by a car in Cambridge and killed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe odds of these two deaths occurring together were estimated at \u003cb\u003efour in one billion.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on extensive research and exclusive access to key sources, award-winning \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e journalist Katie Prescott forensically explores the life and death of this elusive maverick. Prescott guides us from Lynch’s humble beginnings, through his meteoric rise to CEO of Autonomy, and beyond to a vicious legal battle lasting more than a decade following the 2011 sale of Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard for more than £11bn. A truly brilliant feat of investigative reporting, this is a tale where nothing is quite as it appears.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Totally gripping . . . A real-life story that reads like a novel' – Sathnam Sanghera, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eEmpireland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'There is an old saying that most journalists have a bad book in them . . . Katie Prescott isn’t one of them. If this was a film script no one would believe it' – Kamal Ahmed, journalist and author of \u003ci\u003eLife and Times of a Very British Man\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A meticulously researched glimpse into the dark side of tech business in the UK . . . Riveting' – Parmy Olson, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSupremacy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54657093894488,"sku":"9781035074235","price":27.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781035074235.jpg?v=1769858143","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/curious-case-of-mike-lynch","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}