ON DECEMBER 30, 2019, CARLOS GHOSN BECAME THE MOST FAMOUS FUGITIVE ON THE PLANET 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 Carlos Ghosn was arrested on arrival at Haneda Airport in Tokyo a year earlier and incarcerated for 130 days.
Long revered in Japan for saving Nissan from bankruptcy in 1999 and helping Renault achieve its best results ever, Ghosn explains being transformed overnight into a pariah, torn from the world and his family in a smear campaign orchestrated by the Nissan Old Guard and Tokyo public prosecutors. He also recounts how he built the Alliance into a global giant, expanding in markets from the United States, China and Russia to Brazil, Morocco and Thailand, becoming the world's top automaker by volume in 2017. But Ghosn's arrest on November 9, 2018 plunges it into a deep crisis as company share prices collapse at the same time as the industry faces an unprecedented technological revolution.
Broken Alliances involves top levels of political power in Japan and France and describes a Japanese judicial system closer to that of the Soviet Union under Stalin than an advanced democracy. It also addresses the reasons behind Nissan's internal coup and questions about Ghosn's remuneration, his management methods and his vision of the future of the auto industry — to understand what has happened and what could still happen tomorrow.