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A review by kimia_hyperfocuser
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
Did not finish book. Stopped at 91%.
adventurous
challenging
dark
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
Farrow tells such a gripping story. It is astonishing how strong the network that protected these men was. Listening to the audiobook, I oscillated between enraged, frustrated, and hopeful.
I was also amazed by the fact that the whole thing came about not because this one journalist was determined and incorruptible, but because many individuals chose to do the right thing at great personal risk. Not just the women who went public with their names and faces, but the PI who was hired to intimidate a journalist and chose not to, the NBC producer who was pressured and chose to carry on, the leak in the espionage agency who sent Farrow documents because she believed protecting rapists is wrong. Damn.
Re the accents Farrow does in the audiobook: do I wish he'd done them better? Yes. Did I find it impossible to look past? No.
I was also amazed by the fact that the whole thing came about not because this one journalist was determined and incorruptible, but because many individuals chose to do the right thing at great personal risk. Not just the women who went public with their names and faces, but the PI who was hired to intimidate a journalist and chose not to, the NBC producer who was pressured and chose to carry on, the leak in the espionage agency who sent Farrow documents because she believed protecting rapists is wrong. Damn.
Re the accents Farrow does in the audiobook: do I wish he'd done them better? Yes. Did I find it impossible to look past? No.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, and Sexual violence