Katie Prescott
Katie Prescott
Katie Prescott is technology business editor at The Times and a weekly columnist for the newspaper’s award-winning business section. A regular on Times Radio and The Times’ daily podcast The Story, she is a familiar voice to millions of listeners after a decade reporting for the BBC and presenting the business news on Radio 4’s Today.
She is the current host of The Times Tech Podcast, and was the winner of ‘Tech Commentator of the Year’ at the UK Tech Awards.
Books
The Curious Case of Mike Lynch: The Improbable Life & Death of a Tech Billionaire
Rights
Endorsements
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 it
Totally gripping... A real-life story that reads like a novel
A meticulously researched glimpse into the dark side of tech business in the UK... Riveting
This gripping book, with its tragic ending, is a major achievement
Gripping... Essential reading for anyone interested in the future of tech, finance and transatlantic capitalism
All the twists and turns of a top-notch thriller
One of the most astonishing business stories of our time
Synopsis
A maverick outsider. An improbable life. An even more improbable death. Discover the real story of Mike Lynch, Britain’s enigmatic billionaire.
On the morning of 19th August 2024, the Bayesian yacht tragically sank off the coast of Sicily, taking with it the lives of Mike Lynch, his daughter and five others. Hours earlier, Lynch’s associate and co-defendant in one of the biggest fraud cases in Silicon Valley history, Stephen Chamberlain, was hit by a car in Cambridge and killed.
The odds of these two deaths occurring together were estimated at four in one billion.
Drawing on extensive research and exclusive access to key sources, award-winning Times journalist Katie Prescott forensically explores the life and death of this elusive maverick. Prescott guides us from Lynch’s humble beginnings, through his meteoric rise to CEO of Autonomy, and beyond to a vicious legal battle lasting more than a decade following the 2011 sale of Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard for more than £11bn. A truly brilliant feat of investigative reporting, this is a tale where nothing is quite as it appears.
