Book excerpt: 1. The Enron success and failure -- 2. Enron as of 31 December 2000 -- 3. First six months of 2001: before the storm -- 4. Sherron Watkins' letter to Kenneth L. Lay -- 5. The clouds burst -- 6. The 100-year flood -- 7. JEDI and Chewco: not the movie -- 8. LJM1 and rhythms -- 9. LJM2 and Raptors I and III -- 10. LJM2 and Raptors II and IV -- 11. Other transactions -- 12. The collapse -- 13. The indictment of lay and skilling -- 14. The trial -- 15. A slice of the Skilling-Lay trial -- 16. The Skilling-Lay trial: fair or foul? -- 17. Mark to market accounting: feeding the growth requirement -- 18. Concluding observations