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Feeding the Beast: How Wedtech Became the Most Corrupt Little Company in America

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I can think of 2 books that tell the story of a company's experience in federal contracting, and this is one of them. Both are about Wedtech, a good scandal story. It's telling that the only way you can read a book about a company in this industry is through scandal. But if you want to understand the industry, you can do worse than getting this book.

As a disclosure, I should state now that I'm in the industry. For the most part this is an unglamorous industry, government contracting. I suppose that's the reason it takes a big fraud story to create a book interesting enough to read.

To me, Wedtech's fraud is just a hook to get the reader's attention. It's not a literary device. This is a journalistic book. But the real story is the context. The reader gets to know how this enormous, insider's industry operates. All the characters are present: project managers, contracting officers, government customers, lobbyists, business development folks, operations staff, owner-CEOs, politicians and an accountant.

The motivations that drove the perpetrators to commit their deeds are universal. They all started out innocently enough with the possible exception of the politicians and lobbyists. Many people would find this an important book. Wedtech is not a household name. I can't find anybody that heard of it. The book is excellent and I recommend it.