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

This nonfiction work details the rise and fall of Theranos, a multibillion-dollar biotech startup that falsely claimed to revolutionise blood testing. It examines the corporate fraud and deception behind the company's collapse.

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