The Curious Case of Mike Lynch
13 November 2025Imprint: Macmillan Business
Synopsis
Mike Lynch was a maverick outsider in the British business world.
From humble beginnings, Lynch rose to become one of the UK’s richest men, selling his home-grown enterprise software company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard for over £11bn in 2011. The sale triggered one of the biggest fraud cases in Silicon Valley history, as HP accused him of cooking the company’s books. Lynch...
Details
13 November 2025464 pages
9781035074235Imprint: Macmillan Business
Reviews
There is an old saying that most journalists have a bad book in them . . . Katie Prescott isn’t one of them. If this was a film script no one would believe itKamal Ahmed, journalist and author of Life and Times of a Very British Man
Totally gripping . . . A real-life story that reads like a novelSathnam Sanghera, bestselling author of Empireland
A meticulously researched glimpse into the dark side of tech business in the UK . . . RivetingParmy Olson, bestselling author of Supremacy
This gripping book, with its tragic ending, is a major achievementRory Cellan-Jones, journalist and former BBC News Technology Correspondent
