Bad Blood

John Carreyrou

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2018 by John Carreyrou

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Carreyrou, John, author.

Title: Bad blood : secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley startup / John Carreyrou.

Description: First Edition. | New York : Knopf, 2018.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018000263 | ISBN 9781524731656 (hardback) | ISBN 9781524731663 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Theranos (Firm)—History. | Hematologic equipment industry—United States. | Fraud—United States. | BISAC: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship. | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance. | TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Biomedical.

Classification: LCC HD9995.H423 U627 2018 | DDC 338.7/681761—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2018000263

Ebook ISBN 9781524731663

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