国际英语新闻：Eliot Spitzer's rise and fall to be told by Penguin

New York Governor Eliot Spitzer stands next to his wife Silda Wall Spitzer as he announces his resignation at his office in New York, March 12, 2008. A book about former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's career "from start to finish" will be published by Penguin Group (USA).

    BEIJING, May 4  -- A book about former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's career "from start to finish" will be published by Penguin Group (USA), Penguin imprint Portfolio said as quoted by media reports Sunday.

    The announcement was made a little more than a month after the ex-governor's resignation.

    Peter Elkind, co-author of 2003 best-seller "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," is working on the book with filmmaker Alex Gibney.

    Gibney and Elkind will also work on a documentary about the law-and-order Democrat.

    The release date for the yet untitled book and film has not been set.

    Spitzer resigned in March after news broke that he was a repeat client of a high-end prostitution ring. He has not been charged with any wrongdoing.

    "We know Peter to be a spectacular investigative reporter, just spectacular," Portfolio publisher and President Adrian Zackheim told The Associated Press.

    "This is not a quickie book. He's going to do what he does best: Come back with a very, very satisfying, in-depth and complicated story." (www.hxen.com)

    Elkind is a senior writer for Fortune magazine and in 2004 wrote a cover story about Spitzer, who was then New York's attorney general.

    Elkind and Spitzer were college classmates. Elkind graduated from Princeton the year before Spitzer did.