“A meticulous dissection of the Enron story... Eichenwald has accomplished a prodigious feat of reporting... His writing is reader-friendly. He manages to convey a sense of the dizzying confusion and nerve-racking tension that infused the company years before it fell.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“Conspiracy of Fools is A SPLENDID ACHIEVEMENT. Mr. Eichenwald has an encylopedic grasp of a watershed business collapse, and has turned it into a gripping read, a true tale for our times... the overall effect is riveting.”
—The New York Times

“ENGROSSING... It is an excellent, entertaining tale. Mr. Eichenwald writes the book in a chain of ear-to-the-keyhole anecdotes of Enron meetings and conversations that show readers how the scandal unfolded.”
—Dallas Morning News

“As a reader, you feel every bit of evidence has been weighed, every stone turned over, every effort made to find out what really happened. Yet, even given all the attention to detail, the book is an easy, page-turning read. Eichenwald structures his narrative as a scene-by-scene cinematic thriller... The last hundred pages, a minute-by-minute account of an imploding company, is a riveting slice of business journalism that bursts with chaos, adrenaline and despair.”
—Salon.com

“Eichenwald, who also wrote The Informant, about the Archer Daniels Midland price-fixing scandal, isn’t the first, by a long shot, to write an Enron book. But Conspiracy of Fools may be the most comprehensive, with a sophisticated grasp of the big picture tempered by considerable human drama.”
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram

“MAGNIFICENT... written in the manner of a breezy crypto-thriller and told from the viewpoint of a fly on the wall—or at times, a devil on the shoulders. The style makes gripping reading... readers looking for a fact-filled companion to one of the all-time greatest Ponzi schemes will find everything they're expecting here, along with compelling prose and remarkable insights.”
—Barron's

“A RIVETING NARRATIVE... Eichenwald, a reporter for The New York Times, is becoming known not just for his strong newspaper reporting, which has won him two Polk Awards, but for turning stories of corporate crime into books that read something like John Grisham novels.”
—Newsday

“If it's an inside look at corporate malfeasance you're after, look no further than "Conspiracy of Fools," the story of Enron and Kurt Eichenwald, who previously aimed his investigative pen at Archer Daniels Midland with "The Informant," now on the Hollywood drawing board.”
—The New York Post

“[A]fter reading Kurt Eichenwald's Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story, you will wonder how it was possible no one heard the din of voices crying out in the wilderness of Enron's ruinous financial schemes.... The hefty book, an outgrowth of Eichenwald's three years covering the scandal for the New York Times, offers a timely reminiscence as the trials of former Enron chairman Ken Lay and Chief Executive Officer Jeff Skilling approach.”
—US News & World Report

“Eichenwald offers vivid portraits of the main characters with revealing vignettes that capture a corporate tragedy of epic scale. Clearly, with the trials of Lay and Skilling yet to come, the story of Enron remains unfinished.... However, Eichenwald's account will rightly be judged the definitive book to date.”
—Library Journal

“Although Enron's story is more convoluted than a Medici revenge plot, Eichenwald... spins out the essential facts in quick, colorful scenes. He recreates the dialogue of the principal characters as convincingly as if he had been at their elbow taking notes.”
—Bookpage

“[P]resented in a rat-a-tat style thick with corporate anxiety, keeping pages turning... As an unadorned attempt to get into the heads of some major manipulators, this book can hardly be bettered.”
—Publishers Weekly

“A PAGE-TURNING FINANCIAL THRILLER....This book compares with Liar's Poker and Barbarians at the Gate in its breadth and depth of coverage of esoteric corporate culture and financial practices, recognizing the compelling human drama beneath the scandal.”
—Booklist

“Only this white-collar-crime reporter for the New York Times could turn the Enron scandal into a book that reads like a Joel Schumacher script (starring Gene Hackman as glad-handing Ken Lay?). . . Eichenwald's style, which worked so well in The Informant, carries the day.”
—Details Magazine

“THE DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT of Enron's collapse and an accurate historical account of how Corporate America got off track at the turn of the century... Two dozen books on the scandal have already been written, but today's arrival of Conspiracy of Fools stands out as the best of them... Eichenwald's fluid storytelling has resulted in a page-turner... As with another business book, Barbarians at the Gate, this one succeeds not only in telling the story of a company in crisis, but in portraying the spirit of an era.”
—USA Today

“Even if you've read innumerable accounts of the Enron scandal, you'll find the meltdown depicted in Kurt Eichenwald's Conspiracy of Fools to be an eye-opener. His you-are-there narrative and fastidious attention to detail bring this byzantine saga to life as never before... he has likely come as close to reality as any outsider can get. It's abundantly clear why he's considered one of the best investigative reporters in the business.”
—BusinessWeek

“THRILLING... A half-dozen books have been published about Enron's collapse, but Conspiracy of Fools, Kurt Eichenwald's richly detailed narrative, is likely to be a landmark record—not just of what went wrong at Enron, but of how American business went crazy during the 1990s, when it seemed that everyone had a shot at becoming a billionaire in the New Economy.”
—Baltimore Sun

“It's pretty hard to read Kurt Eichenwald's history of the economic disaster known as "Enron" without feeling one's jaw drop... I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN.”
—Wisconsin State Journal