Raised by a well-off family in Beirut and educated in Paris, Carlos Ghosn rose to prominence at Michelin in the United States, Renault in France, and Nissan in Japan. Ghosn was considered to be among the greatest business minds of his generation, and the press hailed him as a financial genius. Unexpectedly accused of financial misconduct and arrested for a bevy of crimes, Ghosn plotted an ambitious escape back to his native Lebanon. Here Nick Kostov and Sean McLain recount the life story of this ambitious yet unprincipled visionary of the auto industry.