When news of Volkswagen’s ‘clean diesel’ fraud first broke in September 2015, it sent shockwaves around the world. Overnight, the world’s largest car maker– a company long associated with quality, reliability and trust- became a universal symbol of greed and deception. Consumers were outraged, investors panicked, the company embarrassed and facing bankruptcy. As lawsuits and criminal investigations piled up, by early 2017 VW had settled with regulators and car owners for $20 billion, with additional fines and claims still looming. In Faster, Higher, Farther Jack Ewing rips the lid off the scandal. He describes VW’s rise from ‘the people’s car’ during the Nazi era to one of Germany’s most prestigious and important global brands, touted for being ‘green’. He paints vivid portraits of VW chairman and chief executive arguing that their unremitting ambition drove employees, working feverishly in pursuit of impossible sales targets, to illegal methods.