Is Catch and Kill Worth Reading?
Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
by Ronan Farrow
Ada’s Score
Ronan Farrow's 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation reveals not only how he uncovered the allegations against Harvey Weinstein that ignited the #MeToo movement, but how Hollywood's most powerful mogul — with the help of private intelligence operatives, corporate lawyers, and complicit media executives — worked systematically to silence the women who accused him. Farrow writes with the propulsive clarity of a thriller, building scene by scene toward one of the most significant cultural reckoning of recent decades. The book also raises profound questions about who controls the news and why powerful men remain protected for so long. Essential, frightening, and meticulously sourced.
Episode 1“The story behind the story is somehow more frightening than the story itself. Essential journalism.”
The Story They Tried to Bury
Ronan Farrow spent years being threatened, surveilled, and pressured to kill his reporting on Harvey Weinstein, and Catch and Kill is his account of both the story and the battle to tell it. It reads with the pace of a thriller and lands with the weight of history, because it is history — a reckoning with how power protects itself and silences the people it harms. What stays with me most is not just the scandal but the courage it took, from Farrow and from every woman who spoke on the record knowing exactly what it would cost them.
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AI reading intelligence“The story behind the story is somehow more frightening than the story itself. Essential journalism.”
The Story They Tried to Bury
Ronan Farrow spent years being threatened, surveilled, and pressured to kill his reporting on Harvey Weinstein, and Catch and Kill is his account of both the story and the battle to tell it. It reads with the pace of a thriller and lands with the weight of history, because it is history — a reckoning with how power protects itself and silences the people it harms. What stays with me most is not just the scandal but the courage it took, from Farrow and from every woman who spoke on the record knowing exactly what it would cost them.
Book Details
- Publisher
- Back Bay Books
- Published
- January 1, 2020
- Pages
- 480
- Language
- English
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Ada’s Score
4.6
Ada’s editorial score — not an aggregate of reader reviews.
Common Questions About Catch and Kill
- Is Catch and Kill worth reading?
- The story behind the story is somehow more frightening than the story itself. Essential journalism. Ada rates it 4.6 out of 5.
- How many pages is Catch and Kill?
- Catch and Kill is 480 pages long — around 8–9 hours at an average reading pace.
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