Don’t get me wrong – I love a good novel. But when it comes to stand-out characters, intrigue, devious behaviour and media adulation, it’s hard to go past the real life stories of Elizabeth Holmes and, more recently, Sam Bankman-Fried – fallen entrepreneurial wunderkinds.

When Theranos, the blood-testing company that Liz Holmes had established in her twenties, blew up, there was multiple media coverage of the event.