In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth. At any cost.
In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood’s most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, … predator, protected by fear, wealth, and a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives, from high-priced lawyers to elite war-hardened spies, mounted a secret campaign of intimidation, threatening his career, following his every move, and weaponizing an account of abuse in his own family.
All the while, Farrow and his producer faced a degree of resistance they could not explained-until now. And a trail of clues revealed corruption and cover-ups from Hollywood to Washington and beyond.
This is the untold story of the exotic tactics of surveillance and intimidation deployed by wealthy and connected men to threaten journalists, evade accountability, and silence victims of abuse. And it’s the story of the women who risked everything to expose the truth and spark a global movement.
Both a spy thriller and a meticulous work of investigative journalism, Catch and Kill breaks devastating new stories about the rampant abuse of power and sheds far-reaching light on investigations that shook the culture.
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A must read (or get the audiobook). Farrow is a true journalist.
I couldn’t put this book down. The truth is that men in high places have enough power and money to hide the terrible things they do to women! I have experienced this myself and now truly understand why most women do not report sexual abuse.
Important, meticulously researched book about Harvey Weinstein, his victims and the MeToo movement.
Excellent Reads like a thriller.
Every year I seek out a few political and true crime reads that I hope will be important ones, to intersperse between the escapist scifi and thrillers dominating my TBR list.
This year I’ve found more than a few, and am so glad I got to include Catch and Kill to that list. Ronan Farrow does a superb job of relating the day-to-day frustration of his search for justice for the many women left in Harvey Weinstein’s greasy wake. As well, Ronan Farrow enlightens us to the greater issue of corporations and good-old-boy networks covering for (and even supporting) a disturbing culture of sexually predatory men in power.
The #metoo movement may have slowed a bit in its momentum in the past year, but no one who reads this book will want to allow this slowing to continue. Now is always the time to stand up for equality and respect in the workplace, and there’s no better place to start than with the entitled pussy-grabbing men whose impulse control issues with women have gone unchecked for far too long.
Ronan Farrow, as Mia Farrow has implied, the son of Woody Allen, the putative dad whom he never liked, or of Frank Sinatra, where the whole Sinatra family treated him like FAMILY, has written a book about the system of molesters of women ( and one wonders who else) throughout corporate America,
probably America in general, and the media and other presumed “ guardians of society” who do the massive, decades long cover-ups.
The serious press, historically known as “The Fourth Estate,” is the supposèd cadre of REAL JOURNALISTS who should be above reproach. How many journalists who find the deep, dangerous truth to their own peril are there left? Ronan Farrow is AN BRAVE and BRILLIANT JOURNALIST, unintimidable in a quiet way, with deep moral convictions about what we should be able to expect for society and what long-established but rotting institutions we still hope will provide it.
He and a colleague researched the everyone-looks-the- other-way true story for NBC, who then discovered they were too craven to publish it. All hail THE NEW YORKER, who fact-checked it thoroughly, and then PRINTED IT ALL.
Ronan Farrow writes this story in the first person like a laconic but still revealing memoirist. In few words, without a surfeit of emotion, he reveals his perceptions of others he comes across from the seemingly broken but brave women willing to testify on camera to horrendous, often unceasing sadistic sexual-psychological abuse from mega-executives or equivalent “ top-dogs” to former KGB spies Harvey Weinstein (and NBC by extension) had surveilling him
and who, upon occasion, forced him into a “ safe house.”
Ronan Farrow’s CATCH AND KILL is a formidably current, beautifully written investigative “memoir” by an unusually unflappable, young genius of the twenty-first century. Sure to stand as one of the best of out century. NHD
I can’t stop reading this book. No one would believe me if I told them a story about a guy writing an article for The New Yorker was an action-packed nail-bitter…but it is. All about the modern world we’re all struggling in.
Incredible, terrifying and incredible reporting. Ronan Farrow is the kind of journalist we need in the world.