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gabiop's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
4.0
lucawartna's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
informative
tense
medium-paced
4.0
When truth is stranger than fiction… it’s truly mindblowing how the crimes committed by Wirecard could go on for so long and so blatantly out in the open. And at the same time, when auditors are kind of the only thing in the way of fraud on this scale, it is believable.
I enjoyed the perspective of the story, told by the journalist working on the case for years, showing a personal side.
Enjoyable albeit painful read, cuz you really don’t want this to be the truth.
I enjoyed the perspective of the story, told by the journalist working on the case for years, showing a personal side.
Enjoyable albeit painful read, cuz you really don’t want this to be the truth.
flexcent's review
adventurous
challenging
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
tense
medium-paced
4.0
I had never heard of wirecard before reading this book. Incredible story, at some points even unbelievable. Starts off really exciting and fast pace, and ends the same way, but the middle felt a bit slow.
bloodyfool0's review
3.0
The story is intriguing, but unfortunately I couldn't grasp how the fraud was committed. Perhaps I'm not a financial man to understand certain practices, but I didn't really see the magnitude of the crime. We saw some shell clients, but how they overcame audits needs a bit more explanation other than stating "trustees" were created to hold funds. Won't an auditor and financial institution want to know the details of these trust schemes? This wasn't elaborated anywhere clearly enough.
Another example, is how do you show up at a bank and see some envelopes being handed out without noting the contents? These are not holes in the story but areas where much more explanation was required.
The focus also placed too much emphasis over certain characters and I didn't understand why since it didn't seem relevant at the end.
Another example, is how do you show up at a bank and see some envelopes being handed out without noting the contents? These are not holes in the story but areas where much more explanation was required.
The focus also placed too much emphasis over certain characters and I didn't understand why since it didn't seem relevant at the end.
bigcitydreamer's review against another edition
informative
reflective
tense
medium-paced
4.0
Took a little longer than expected to get into the book but by the end I was recommending it to everyone around me. Unlike others I did enjoy the look at the author's process to break this story for the FT (as someone who has read the Lunch with the FT book as well as The Powerful and Damned, which I may revisit to review this section). I did wish the book went into more details about the fraud earlier on, which would have made it even more gripping. Overall, glad I read.