Broken Alliances

Carlos Ghosn is the former chairman and chief executive of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance. He also served as chairman and chief executive at Renault (2005-19) and chairman at Nissan and Mitsubishi (until 2018). Known for orchestrating the remarkable turnaround of Nissan from near bankruptcy in 1999, Ghosn later became the auto industry's longest-serving chief executive and the first to run two Fortune Global 500 companies simultaneously. Philippe Riès is a journalist who spent almost three decades at Agence France-Presse (AFP), the world's oldest news agency. He served as AFP's chief economics editor in Paris for six years before leaving in 2008 to become a founding member of Mediapart, the world's first online journal available exclusively by subscription. Ries has authored four books including Shift: Inside Nissan's Historic Revival with Carlos Ghosn.Peter Starr is a writer who has been based in the Mekong Delta in Cambodia since 2000. He has lived in Asia since 1986, working for 15 years as an editor, correspondent and consultant for AFP. Previously, he covered banking for the Australian Financial Review. Starr has authored three corporate histories of Citigroup and translated The Asian Storm: Asia's Economic Crisis Examined by Philippe Riès.

On December 30, 2019, Carlos Ghosn became the world's most famous fugitive when the former chairman of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance fled to Lebanon from house arrest in Japan. This political-judicial thriller describes in detail for the first time how the man behind Nissan's spectacular revival was arrested a year earlier and incarcerated for 130 days as part of a trap set by the Nissan Old Guard and the Tokyo Public Prosecutors' Office.