Table of Contents

Preface: In the Beginning. 1. Ken Lay's Junk Bond Ride Up on the Natural Gas Express. 2. A Pattern of Less than Full Disclosure. 3. The Skilling Case Study. 4. The Downside of Rank and Yank. 5. A Market a Day Keeps the Debt Away (But Only Temporarily). 6. Enron Goes Online. 7. Broadband Is a Costly Mistake. 8. Enron Takes on Water. 9. From Arrogance to Bankruptcy. 10. Of Talking Heads and Quiet Deals. 11. The Only Place to End the Enron Story. Cast of Characters. Through the Pipeline: An Enron Time Line. The Enron Files. References. About the Authors. Index.

About the Author

Peter C. Fusaro is founder and President of Global Change Associates, an energy consulting firm. His extensive research on Enron is regularly referenced by those investigating the firm's dramatic collapse. Ross M. Miller is founder and President of Miller Risk Advisors. Previously, he taught finance and economics and then established the quantitative finance research group at General Electric.

Reviews

"...first book to address the difficult questions surrounding Enron..." (Lloyd's List, 5 July 2002) "Here come the Enron books...The best offering...is What Went Wrong at Enron." (The New York Times, Sunday, July 28, 2002) "...a new book on the Enron debacle..." (The Sunday Business Post, 28 July 2002) "...the gripping drama de jour..." (Business Eye, 1 August 2002) "...the book chronicles the deception, back stabbing and eventual whistle-blowing that toppled the Houston-based company..." (Moneywise, September 2002) "...the end result is quite gripping...it gave out information without even trying and it readily soaked into the consciousness..." (M2 Best Books, 15 August 2002) "...ideal reading for a train journey or flight..." (Mortgage Finance Gazette, October 2002) "...compelling and very clearly written book draws the right lessons from the Enron debacle" (Christopher Faille, HedgeWorld) "...Fusaro and miller have provided an excellent primer to whet our appetites for the scurrilous revelations to come..." (Times Higher Educational Supplement, 22 November 2002) "...a fascinating, highly readable blow-by-blow account of what led to a company's dramatic collapse..." (IEE Review, Janauary 2003) "...a truly fascinating read." (Financial Adviser, 26 September 2002)