Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

It is absolutely staggering how far you can get in life if you're a cute blonde girl with no shame and the ability to remind powerful men of their daughters. The Theranos technology literally never worked, but that didn't stop Walgreens from putting it in their stores or people like Henry Kissinger and James Mattis from supporting Elizabeth Holmes (including one board member believing her word over his own grandson who worked in the lab, which is just heartbreaking to me). This is a fascinating story, particularly the last third or so, which is all about how hard Theranos fought to keep the author from writing his first article exposing the fraud.

(Also, someone who practices civil law will have to tell me if David Boies's actions in this whole thing are considered ethical - taking shares in a company and a seat on the board as payment certainly seems sketchy to me, but it's certainly not my area.)