<p><b>Ken Bensinger</b> is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and an award-winning investigative reporter for Buzzfeed News. He is based in Los Angeles.<br><br>Find him on Twitter @kenbensinger</p><p><b>WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS AWARD FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019</b><br><br>The story of FIFA's fall from grace has it all: power, betrayal, revenge, sports stars, hustlers, corruption, sex and phenomenal quantities of money, all set against exotic locales stretching from Caribbean beaches to the formal staterooms of the Kremlin and the sun-blasted streets of Doha, Qatar. <br><br>In <i>Red Card</i>, investigative journalist Ken Bensinger takes a journey to FIFA's dark heart. He introduces the flamboyant villains of the piece - the FIFA kingpins who flaunted their wealth in private jets and New York's grandest skyscrapers - and the dogged team of American FBI and IRS agents, headed by Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who finally brought them to book. Providing fresh insights on a scandal which has gripped the world, he shows how greed and arrogance brought down the most powerful institution in sporting history. <br><br>A wild, gritty, gripping, and at times blackly comic story, <i>Red Card</i> combines world-class journalism with the pace of a thriller. <br><br><i>Red Card</i> will be a major film, produced by Pearl Street Films, the production company owned by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.</p>The full story behind the FIFA's headline-grabbing corruption scandal, soon to be a major film
Product Details
Title:
RED CARD (EXPORT TPB): FIFA and the Fall of the Most Powerful Men in Sports [Paperback] Ken Bensinger
Author:
Ken Bensinger
SKU:
BK0437864
EAN:
9781788160629
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
About Author
<b>Ken Bensinger </b>has worked at the <i>Wall Street Journal</i>, <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, and, since 2014, for BuzzFeed News as a member of the investigations team. Among other topics, he has written about sport, business, immigration, art and politics. Bensinger has twice won the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Finance & Business Reporting, has also won the ASME National Magazine Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He grew up in Seattle, graduated from Duke University and lives in Los Angeles with his family. <i>Red Card</i>, his first book, was named the <i>Telegraph</i>'s 2019 Football Book of the Year.
